Georgia law enforcement authorities have arrested another man and a woman in connection with the homicide of a 10-year-old boy in Milledgeville.
Authorities are also looking for a fourth suspect in connection with the same crime.
Baldwin County Sheriff Bill Massee announced Monday afternoon during a press conference that detectives, along with agents of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation Region 6 Office in Milledgeville, and detectives with the Milledgeville Police Department, had made an arrest in the case.
Massee identified that suspect as 39-year-old Rodracius Damaris Stephens. He was found hiding from law enforcement officers at the Heritage Inn, located on North Columbia Street in Milledgeville.
He was charged with the murder of 10-year-old Damarion Byrd, a fifth grade student at Midway Hills Academy. The child was asleep in the bedroom of a single-wide mobile home when someone or a group of individuals fired 17 gunshots into the side of the residence about 1:30 a.m. Monday.
One of the bullets struck Byrd as he slept. He was later pronounced dead at Atrium Health Navicent Baldwin hospital in Milledgeville.
On Tuesday afternoon, Massee announced the arrests of two more suspects in the fatal shooting case — Shamonica Kiera Reaves and Charles Chavez Jackson Jr.
Reaves and Jackson also have been charged with one count each of murder. They are also both being held in the Baldwin County Jail.
The name of a fourth suspect has been made public, but he has not yet been arrested.
A murder warrant was taken out against Jerrell Antwoin Stubbs Tuesday morning, Massee said.
Anyone with information on Stubbs’ whereabouts is asked to call the Baldwin County Sheriff’s Office crime tip line at 478-445-5102.
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