Two area men were arrested Sunday in Rhode Island in the shooting death of a 15-year-old boy last week in Spring Lake.
Tommy Jackson, 23, of Sanford, and Jesse Richardson, 26, of Fayetteville, are each charged with first-degree murder, first-degree burglary, conspiracy to commit burglary and possession of a stolen motor vehicle.
The men stand accused in the 2:02 a.m. fatal shooting in the Cimarron Mobile Home park on April 12 off N.C. 210, north of Ray Road.
They were arrested in Middletown, Rhode Island, after an officer there spotted the vehicle they were in and ran the license plate about 10:30 a.m., Middletown police officials said in a news release. At that time, the plate came back clear, officials said.