2 Philly Men Charged In 2016 Bristol Township Death

LOWER BUCKS COUNTY, PA —Two Philadelphia men have been charged for the July 2016 killing of a 38-year-old man in Bristol Township, authorities said.

George Javon Clark, 33, and John Marquis Wilson, 43, were arraigned Thursday by Magisterial District Judge Kevin P. Wagner and were sent to Bucks County Correctional Facility.

An investigation determined that the two men killed Herbert Lyals in 2016.

The arrests were the result of an investigation by Detectives with the Bucks County District Attorney’s Office and the Bristol Township Police Department, and a recommendation from the Bucks County Investigating Grand Jury.

Clark is charged with criminal homicide, conspiracy to commit criminal homicide, first-degree murder, second-degree murder, robbery, conspiracy to commit robbery, criminal use of a communication facility, conspiracy to commit criminal use of a communication facility, criminal attempt to commit theft by unlawful taking, conspiracy to commit theft by unlawful taking, theft from a motor vehicle, conspiracy to commit theft from a motor vehicle, and possession of an instrument of crime.

Wilson is charged with third-degree murder, conspiracy to commit criminal homicide, robbery, conspiracy to commit robbery, criminal use of a communication facility, conspiracy to commit criminal use of a communication facility, conspiracy to commit theft by unlawful taking, and conspiracy to commit theft from a motor vehicle.

case began after Bristol Township Police were dispatched at 12:46 a.m. on July 26, 2016, to a report of a shooting in the 5000 block of Truman Street.

Outside of a residence there, police found Lyals dead of a gunshot wound.