Cop Pulls Over Speeding Car, Finds Dead Body In The Trunk

What started out as a routine traffic stop in North Carolina ended with four men facing murder charges. The four men were pulled over around 1 a.m. on Monday (January 18) for speeding by an officer with the Roanoke Rapids Police Department. During the traffic stop, Officer C. Roberts discovered a body in the trunk.

Thinking that the man might still be alive, Roberts began to perform life-saving measures but quickly realized he was deceased.

"It startled him. You're not sure what's going to happen. You open the trunk there's somebody there," Roanoke Rapids Police Chief Bobby Martin told WRAL. "That's when he started trying to do what he thought would be life-saving measures, but unfortunately, the young man was already deceased."

Detectives were called for the scene and determined that the victim, identified as 23-year-old Trevon Quantavius Fields, had likely been shot to death just outside the city limits.

The four occupants of the car, Ralik Robinson, 22, Trevathann Myquan Shearin, 20, Shantron Avondre Person, 20, and Deluntae Jaequon Squire, 23, were taken into custody and charged with murder. Authorities confiscated four guns that were in the vehicle.

Officials did not release a motive for the killing or say if they have determined who fired the shots that killed Fields.

Photo: Halifax County Sheriff's Office


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