An Ayden woman has been arrested and charged in the death of her fiancée who was killed more than a year ago at a Snow Hill apartment, law enforcement said.
The Snow Hill Police Department said that Tameka Shalanda Best, 39, of 316 Roberta Drive, Ayden, was arrested by the Pitt County Sheriff’s Office on April 30 and charged with the April 23, 2023, shooting death of James Shultheis III.
A spokesman for the sheriff’s office said a deputy about 12:15 p.m. stopped a vehicle on Gracewood Drive near the Pitt County Fairgrounds under the belief that Best was inside. She was arrested without incident.
She was detained at the Pitt County Detention Center under a $500,000 bond on a charge of second-degree murder.
Schultheis was found shot in the 600 block of Jordan Avenue at the Snow Hill Green Apartments. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
Teen wanted
A Farmville teen is wanted in connection to an April 15 shooting death on Third Street in west Greenville, police said.
Jah’Quore Connor, 19, is wanted for his involvement in the death of Jashsijah Montejah Jahson, 24, in the 1000 block of West Third Street near White Street, the Greenville Police Department reported.
About 4:40 p.m. that Monday, officers responded to a shots fired call. They found Jahson in the yard of a home. He was suffering from a gunshot wound and died at the scene, police said.
On April 17, Zy’quan Malik Johnson, 21, of 93 Jamal Sarsour St., Walstonburg, was arrested in Rocky Mount for his involvement in the killing, police said.
Rocky Mount police assisted in his arrest. He was charged with murder and accessory after the fact of murder.
Police on May 4 said Connor should be considered armed and dangerous and asked anyone with information about him to contact Detective LoGelfo, 702-1578, or Pitt-Greenville Crime Stoppers, 758-7777.
Pedestrian killed
A Grifton man was hit and killed by a driver who then left the scene on Monday on N.C. 11 near Davenport Farm Road, the Winterville Police Department reported.
Marquez Outlaw, 32, of Grifton, was located by officers about 9:20 p.m., the department said. The time of the crash is unknown.
Information is limited but the vehicle could be a Ford, the department said.
Anyone with information is asked to contact the department at 252-756-1105 or the Pitt-Greenville CrimeStoppers at 252-758-7777.
Store robbed
The Pitt County Sheriff’s Office is seeking the public’s help to identify suspects in the robbery of a Fountain convenience store about 10 a.m. on April 25.
The agency said two armed men robbed Michelle’s Community Store, 3315 U.S. 258, near the highway’s intersection with Turnage Road and Otter Creek Church Road in western Pitt County.
One suspect was described as a tall, light-skinned black male in a black hoodie, black toboggan and black pants, who had a black semiautomatic handgun.
The second suspect was described as a tall black male with light skin wearing a black hoodie and gray sweatpants with three vertical stripes on the side of their pant legs. He was armed with a revolver.
Multiple people were inside the store at the time of the robbery. An incident report said that a handgun valued at $400 and $15,167 cash were stolen. Witnesses told deputies the suspects arrived and left in a dark colored sedan and were last seen driving toward Edgecombe County on U.S. 258.
The sheriff’s office asked anyone with information about the case to contact Detective Perkins, 902-2130, or Pitt-Greenville Crime Stoppers at 758-7777.
Drug arrest
A Farmville man was arrested after a month-long investigation into drug sales, the Pitt County Sheriff’s Office reported.
The agency said that detectives with its Special Operations Unit and Gang and Guns Crime Unit conducted a traffic stop on May 2 on Askew Road in Greenville. A search located narcotics and cash.
Solomon Ferreria Alves, 32, of Farmville was arrested and charged with possession with the intent to sell/deliver cocaine, possession with the intent to sell/deliver marijuana and maintaining a dwelling for controlled substance. He also had an active warrant from the Greenville Police Department for possession of a stolen gun, the release said.
Alves was booked into the Pitt County Detention Center and released May 3 after he posted a $50,000 secured bond. He has prior drug and other convictions in Pitt County dating back to 2009.
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