A man charged with fatally stabbing and then dismembering a 75-year-old Winston-Salem man in 2017 is being sent to Central Regional Hospital after he was declared mentally incompetent to stand trial.
Adrion Demare Whorley, 35, of Rockingham, is charged with first-degree murder, armed robbery and concealing a death in connection with the death of John Douglas Agnew. Prosecutors allege that he killed Agnew and then dismembered him at Agnewâs house sometime between April 7, 2017, and April 10, 2017. Prosecutors allege that Whorley dumped part of Agnewâs body in Randolph County.
They are pursuing the death penalty in this case.
At a brief hearing in Forsyth Superior Court Friday morning, Assistant District Attorney James Dornfried said that two doctors â Matthew McNally, a psychologist at Central Regional Hospital, and Dr. Moira Artigues, a forensic psychiatrist â concluded that Whorley lacked the mental capacity to stand trial.
A Clemmons man smothered his girlfriendâs 15-month-old daughter to death with a pillow because she would not stop crying after she was burned by the manâs cigarette, a Forsyth County prosecutor said in court Thursday.
Dressed in an orange jail jumpsuit, Jesse Wayne Perkins, stood in front of Judge David Hall of Forsyth Superior Court on Thursday morning and pleaded guilty to first-degree murder in the August 2018 death of the toddler, Carolina Rose Dodd.
The plea saved Perkins from a possible sentence of death if the case had gone to trial and a jury had convicted him of first-degree murder. Forsyth County prosecutors had declared last year that they would pursue the death penalty. The only other sentence for a first-degree murder conviction is life in prison without the possibility of parole.
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A Forsyth County prosecutor alleged in court that a Rural Hall man shot his roommate and then sought help from a man in New Bern to dismember and burn the body.Â
The detail came out during what is known as a Rule 24 hearing where a judge determines whether prosecutors can pursue the death penalty. Norris Dwayne Rochelle, 25, of Hallmark Drive in Rural Hall is charged with first-degree murder in the death of his roommate, Nicholas Nic Williams, 40. Indictments say Williams died on Feb. 9, 2019. Williams body was found in Craven County on Feb. 12, 2019, one day after Williams parents reported him missing.Â
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