The second person wanted on an obstruction of justice count in the shooting death of an 18-year-old Chesapeake man was taken into custody in Emporia today.
Roanoke Rapids police Chief Shane Guyant said 30-year-old Thomas Lee Parham also faces charges from the Commonwealth of Virginia.
Parham, who is from Emporia, will be extradited to North Carolina.
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On Monday Kenneth Amari Adkins, 18, surrendered to the Roanoke Rapids Police Department to face a charge of obstruction of justice in the shooting death of Jamari Haskins last week.
Adkins, who was not listed as being in custody in the Halifax County Detention Center has a March 15 district court date.
Adkins and Parham 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 last Tuesday morning.
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.
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.
