WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (WGHP) — The second suspect in a New Year’s Day homicide has been extradited back to North Carolina, according to the Winston-Salem Police Department.
38-year-old Henry Montarious Smith was initially arrested in Florida in July as a suspect in the deadly shooting of John Derriman Richards, 54. He was extradited back to North Carolina on Monday and is being held in the Forsyth County Detention Center without bond.
Background
Police responded to a home on Peachtree Street around 11:20 p.m. on Jan. 1. At the scene, they found Richards dead and a child injured from the shooting. Two other adults and three children were also in the home but were unharmed.
Smith was identified as a suspect along with Terros Derone Drayton, 34, of High Point, who was taken into custody on July 10.
Smith was located and taken into custody in Florida with assistance from the US Marshal’s Service and the Florida Highway Patrol.
He has been charged with felony murder, discharging a weapon into occupied property, assault with the intent to kill and discharging a weapon into an occupied property inflicting serious injury.
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