A Farmville teen charged with a homicide in west Greenville earlier this year is now in custody at the Pitt County Detention Center after he was extradited from Cobb County, Georgia.
Jah’Quore Yahkie Devon Connor, 19, of 4832 W. Hines St., Farmville, was booked into the detention center on May 31. He is charged with an open count of murder in the April 15 death of Jahsijah Montejah Jahson, 34, in the 1000 block of West Third Street near White Street.
Jahson was found suffering a gunshot wound in the yard of a home and died on the scene, Greenville police said.
Connor was arrested on May 8 in Marietta after he barricaded himself in a hotel room. The arrest was coordinated by the Cobb County Police Department, N.C. State Bureau of Investigation, Marietta Police Department and Greenville’s Violent Criminal Apprehension Team. Greenville officers were not in Marietta when Connor was arrested.
Cobb County police said the department’s Violent Crime Bureau received information that a murder suspect wanted out of Greenville was possibly in the area of the Rodeway Inn at 2375 Delk Road, Marietta, and began surveillance at the hotel. Connor was observed entering a room at about 8 p.m. Officers secured an arrest warrant and moved to execute it.
After officers called out, six juveniles exited the room, police said. Shortly after a woman, identified by Cobb County police as Connor’s girlfriend, also exited the room. She made contact with officers on scene and “as a result of her actions” was charged with obstruction, a spokesman for the department said.
Connor remained shut inside the room and eventually officers deployed a chemical agent, which ousted him, police said. He then complied with officers’ commands and was taken into custody without further incident, the spokesman said.
Connor is also being detained on multiple charges from 2023 to include robbery with a dangerous weapon, first degree burglary, assault, felony conspiracy and failure to appear.
On April 17, Zy’quan Malik Johnson, 21, of 93 Jamal Sarsour St., Walstonburg, was arrested in Rocky Mount for his involvement in Jahson’s killing, police said. Rocky Mount police assisted in his arrest. He was charged with murder and accessory after the fact of murder.
Court documents show on the day of the shooting officers developed a blue Nissan Maxima with a white hood as a suspect vehicle.
That vehicle was observed passing the residence where Jahson was shot four times. On the last pass, shots were fired. One round struck the victim and others struck the residence. One 9mm shell casing was recovered from the scene.
A day later, April 16, detectives observed two men in the Maxima arrive at the Piney Grove Apartments in Farmville and later return with two other men. That night officers interviewed Johnson, who was driving the vehicle, and he told police that he went to the Piney Grove Apartments after the shooting.
A search of a residence at 3634 Taylors Turn, part of Piney Grove, yielded three firearms, various ammunition, magazines, drug paraphernalia and cellular phones.
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