This evening Kenneth Amari Adkins surrendered to the Roanoke Rapids Police Department to face a charge of obstruction of justice in the shooting death of 18-year-old Jamari Haskins last week.
Chief Shane Guyant said he received a $50,000 bond and a district court date scheduled for March 15.
His information, as of this report, had not been entered into Halifax County Detention Center records.
Guyant said earlier this evening that Adkins, 18, and Thomas Lee Parham, 30, both of Emporia, helped clean up the crime scene and gave false statements to officers in the aftermath of the shooting death in the 200 block of Madison Street Tuesday morning.
In the gallery, from left: Adkins and Parham
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Parham has not been taken into custody.
Guyant said Haskins was in Roanoke Rapids visiting people and was familiar with people in the 224 Madison residence at the time of the fatal shooting which occurred inside.
The police chief declined to discuss the motive in the case.
Officers responded to the area shortly after midnight upon receiving a shooting call at a residence and noticed several individuals including the deceased.
A 26-year-old Roanoke Rapids man, Demarcus Tyvon Gilbert, remains in the Halifax County Detention Center without the opportunity for bond as he awaits a March 28 district court date in Halifax to face a first-degree murder charge in the case.
Anyone with information is encouraged to contact Crimestoppers at 252-583-4444 or via its website
