Chapel Hill Police have arrested the fifth suspect in connection with the fatal shooting of a teenager on Tuesday night.
The release announcing the arrest of 23-year-old Denzel Lamont Spikes, of Shelby, came after the other four suspects charged in the case made their first appearance in a Hillsborough courtroom on Thursday afternoon.
Those four suspects who were already in custody are 26-year-old Laquida Shuntae Poston from Shelby; 22-year-old Renaire Lewis II from Shelby; 30-year-old Thomas Oliver from Gastonia and 18-year-old Jalen Raekwon Hackney from Burlington. They have been charged with first-degree murder, attempted murder, robbery with a dangerous weapon, conspiracy to commit robbery and accessory after the fact.
Orange County Assistant District Attorney Lamar Proctor said in court that the four were facing the accessory after the fact charge for driving Spikes to a Greensboro hospital so that he could receive treatment for a gunshot wound sustained during the shooting. Officials have not said how Spikes sustained that gunshot wound.
Proctor said the robbery charges stemmed from the suspects taking marijuana from the victims valued at $350 – $700 after the shooting.
Police say officers were called to a shooting off of Legion Road on Jackie Robinson Street near Adelaide Walters Street just before 10 o’clock on Tuesday night. Officers found two victims – both 18 years old – with gunshot wounds at the scene.
Malik Brown was pronounced dead at the hospital, while Tanner Cobb was listed in stable condition as of last update.
A youcaring page has been established hoping to cover the medical cost for Cobb and funeral expenses for Brown and a vigil is planned to remember Brown on Thursday night.
Meanwhile, the four suspects who made first appearances on Thursday are due back in court on August 15. They are all being held without bond.
No comments on this article? No protest about a young African American killed in the streets? RIP young man an may justice be served on all involved in this nonsense.
I just wish there wasn’t a double standard when it comes to young African American men being victims of gun violence. If an officer was involved………can you even imagine?
Your comments just aren’t on point here. You come off a little ignorant making this about race.
the drug game is still the same the retirement package is still the same jail institutions or death that is what happened when kids play a grown man’s game the drug game has no colors s*** happens