Jayquan Termaine Cotton hugged his mother after she asked officers for permission to do so. He was then escorted to a patrol car and taken to Halifax where he was jailed without the opportunity for bond following a Saturday night murder in Roanoke Rapids.

Cotton is escorted by detectives Charles Vaught, left, and Cory Dixon,

right, and Captain Andy Jackson.

She told her son to stay strong, but declined comment to rrspin.com, only saying she would let his attorneys speak for her.

Cotton, 20, turned himself in to his probation officer tonight shortly after 8, Roanoke Rapids Police Chief Jeff Hinton said.

The Roanoke Rapids man was charged in the murder of Jonathan Martice Andino, 23, of Halifax.

Hinton released no further details on the murder, which started as a crash investigation on Chockoyotte Street around 10:45 p.m. Saturday when officers responded to a report of a single vehicle crash where a 1996 Ford automobile struck a tree.

Cotton is led to a patrol car.

It was not determined Andino had been shot until an autopsy was performed at Pitt Memorial Hospital and the medical examiner notified Roanoke Rapids investigators Monday.

Earlier today Hinton declined comment on the more than 24 hour delay in discovering Andino had been shot in the right torso. He referred questions to Halifax EMS which transported Andino and performed CPR on him and HRMC where the man was treated and died.

Cotton has a first court appearance Wednesday and is also scheduled to appear in court February 9.