A Bellefontaine Neighbors man is headed to prison for 17 years after admitting to a 2023 north St. Louis shooting that left one man dead and a teenager wounded. Arryon McGee, 21, pleaded guilty to charges stemming from a Feb. 24, 2023 confrontation in the Greater Ville that killed 21‑year‑old Tyrell Survillion. The judge handed down a 14‑year sentence for second‑degree murder plus a consecutive three‑year term for armed criminal action.
According to First Alert 4, McGee entered his guilty plea in the 22nd Judicial Circuit Court after originally facing a first‑degree murder charge. The court ordered that the armed‑criminal‑action sentence run back‑to‑back with the murder term, which is how prosecutors arrived at the 17‑year total.
What surveillance video showed
Surveillance footage from that February afternoon, summarized in the St. Louis Post‑Dispatch homicide tracker, shows Survillion and a 17‑year‑old woman pulling up to a group of five men in the 4400 block of Ashland Avenue in the Greater Ville. The tracker notes that Survillion leaned toward a car window to talk with McGee just before McGee pulled a gun and opened fire. The 17‑year‑old passenger was hit and ran from the scene, while Survillion was later pronounced dead.
Plea deal for co‑defendant
A second man, 26‑year‑old Marquese Moore, cut his own deal with prosecutors in December 2024. He received a five‑year sentence after pleading guilty to one count of second‑degree assault, as reported by First Alert 4. Moore had initially faced more serious charges, including first‑degree murder, but the plea agreement reduced those counts in exchange for his guilty plea.
Legal context
Under Missouri law, armed criminal action is treated as a separate crime that carries a mandatory prison term of at least three years, and that sentence must run consecutively with any punishment for the underlying felony. That setup explains why McGee’s armed‑criminal‑action term was stacked on top of his murder sentence rather than folded in. The statute spells out that requirement in detail in the Missouri Revised Statutes.
The prison terms for McGee and Moore close the criminal case that began with surveillance footage nearly three years ago, following a drawn‑out prosecution marked by charge reductions and plea bargaining. Court records and local reporting lay out the long path from that Ashland Avenue shooting to this week’s sentencings.
