Suspects surrender in Roanoke Rapids shooting
Two men wanted in a shooting in Roanoke Rapids surrendered Tuesday to the Halifax County Sheriff's Office.
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Authorities said Charles Edward Hockaday, 29, and Alston Lamont Parker, 23, argued with Maggie Graham, 44, Sunday before she was shot.
Hockaday faces charges of assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill inflicting serious injury, assault with a deadly weapon, possession of a firearm by a felon and discharging a weapon into occupied property. He was held on $500,000 bond.
Hockaday was one of four suspects in the April 2008 killing of 29-year-old Jerry Wayne Yellorday. Charges against all four were dropped last October after a judge ruled that there was no probable cause to continue the case.
According to state Department of Correction records, Hockaday's 10-year-long criminal record includes convictions for common-law robbery and selling drugs.
Parker was charged with possession of a firearm by a felon. His bond was set at $2,000.
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