A 28-year-old has been arrested in connection with a Maple Hill triple homicide that left a man and a pregnant woman fatally shot.
The Pender County Sheriff s Office said in a Thursday morning news release Michael Legage Miller Jr. was taken into custody early Thursday morning with the assistance of the Jacksonville Police Department.
Miller is charged with two counts of first-degree murder and one count of murder of an unborn child in the Nov. 8 deaths, according to the release.
Pender County Sheriff Alan Cutler in a Thursday morning press conference said the investigation is still ongoing, and no further information will be released at this time.
As the latest numbers show, only 40 rape kits remain untested in the Wilmington area
Attorney General Josh Stein s Office continues to request additional funds to process any backlog of rape kits in the state
N.C. Attorney General Josh Stein s initiative to decrease the number of untested rape kits in the state has also helped solve more rape cold cases including in the Wilmington area.
According to Laura Brewer, N.C. Attorney General Josh Stein s communications director, there are currently 16,186 rape kits that have been inventoried since the last inventory count in 2019. Of those, 2,925 kits completed testing, and an additional 5,342 are in process.