TAMPA, Fla. — The suspected gunman in the Ybor City shooting will be held without bond, a judge determined Monday morning. 

Tyrell Phillips, 22, made his first appearance in court Monday and was denied bond. He is charged with second-degree murder.

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  • His next court apprearance will be a pre-trial hearing on Thursday

The shooting happened early Sunday morning on 7th Avenue. Police say a 14-year-old boy and a 22-year-old man were killed.

Tampa Police Chief Lee Bercaw said Phillips got into an argument with someone on 7th Avenue and started shooting.

Tampa Mayor Jane Castor said there were 50 police officers in the area when it happened and blamed "bad decisions" and "readily available guns."

Bercaw said officers have the two guns that were used and they're still looking into other people potentially involved.

Newly-released court documents (see below) in this case detail how the suspect approached police right after the shooting, claiming he feared for his life when he was approached by a group of young men in an aggressive manner.

The suspect told police this started after he waved at a girl he knew. He said someone from the group spit on him, and he thought at least one of them was armed.

But, investigators say the surveillance video tells a different story. The suspect told police after some back and forth, that shots rang out. Police and the owner of the store, La France, say an unarmed victim from that group was found on the ground after being shot twice.

Those court documents detail one of the murders in this case, but police believe shots were also fired by someone else, and they’re combing through video to see who else was involved.

Emmitt Wilson, the father of the 14-year-old boy killed, said he's struggling to wrap his head around it.

“It’s painful to see your child lying there,” Wilson said on Sunday. “And there’s nothing I can do but stand behind the yellow tape and just watch them take his body away. I can’t go see him, this is my last time seeing him.

“You never expect this to happen. It was multiple people shot and he happened to be one of the unfortunate to take this. I have to take this loss right now.”

Wilson describes his son as a good kid who sometimes hung out with the wrong crowd.