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On Monday, William Hunter, 21, from the Roanoke Rapids area, turned himself in to the Halifax County Sheriffâs Office, according to a press release from Roanoke Rapids Police Chief Bobby Martin. William and Leon Hunter, 36, also of the Roanoke Rapids area, were sought in regard to a Sept. 14 incident, when officers with the RRPD responded to the Baymont Inn on Old Farm Road, in reference to a male subject being shot. When officers arrived, they located the subject, who had a gunshot to the head. The victim, Aaron Martin, a 25-year-old male from Weldon, was pronounced dead at the scene. I...
Wednesday Shortly after 7 p.m., agents of the Halifax County Sheriffâs Office were in the area of Wendover Lane in Roanoke Rapids following up on drug complaints. Agents had received complaints of possible drug activity, several cars going to a residence staying a short time then leaving throughout the night. Agent B.J. Murphy stopped a vehicle leaving the Wendover Lane residence on West Tenth Street near Colonial Drive for a motor vehicle violation. During the search, smoking pipes and cocaine were seized. Murphy cited the driver, Wendy Wells, 54, of Roanoke Rapids, with a North Carolin...
A Rocky Mount man is charged in Halifax County District Court with felony conspiracy and accessory before the fact in the murder of a man nearly three months ago at