Four North Carolina men were charged with murder early Monday morning after a traffic stop revealed a body in the trunk of their car, the Halifax County Sheriff’s Office said.
Ralik Robinson, 22; Trevathann Myquan Shearin, 20; Shantron Avondre Person, 20; and Deluntae Jaequon Squire, 23, are being held for the murder of Trevon Quantavius Fields, 23.
The sheriff’s office said the incident began at about 1 a.m. when a Roanoke Rapids police officer topped the vehicle carrying the four men for speeding. The officer called in deputies for assistance when he found Fields’s body in the trunk, dead from apparent gunshot wounds.
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Four men were arrested in North Carolina early Monday after police stopped their car for speeding and discovered a dead body inside the trunk, authorities said.
Officer C. Roberts with the Roanoke Rapids Police Department pulled over the vehicle at 1 a.m., the Halifax County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement.
Shortly after the traffic stop, the sheriff’s office said Roberts discovered the body of a man inside the trunk. The man, identified as 23-year-old Trevon Quantavius Fields of Roanoke Rapids, suffered apparent gunshot wounds. Investigators later learned he was likely murdered just outside the city limits.