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| Second local male charged in Eden, N. C. |
Shavon Lamont Reid |
Thursday, November 12, 2009
By GINNY WRAY - Bulletin Staff Writer
A Henry County/Martinsville area man has been charged in Saturday’s shooting death of a Martinsville man outside an Eden, N.C., nightclub, according to the Eden Police Department.
Shavon Lamont Reid, 21, of 3653 Daniels Creek Road, Martinsville, has been charged with first-degree murder in the death of Timothy Ronnel Seay, according to a police department release. Eden Deputy Chief Greg Light said that is how Reid gave his address to officials, and Light was not certain if it should be in Henry County rather than Martinsville.
Reid was arrested around 11:30 p.m. Tuesday without incident, the release stated.
Earlier Tuesday, a juvenile from Virginia was charged with first-degree murder in the case, the police department reported.
The youth turned himself in to detectives at the department around 2:30 a.m. Tuesday, a department release stated. He was accompanied by a relative and taken into custody without incident, the release stated.
The youth was charged on a juvenile petition in the case and is being held in the Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Greensboro, N.C., according to the release.
Light said Tuesday that the department is not releasing the juvenile’s age or address, other than to say he is from “the Virginia area.” His name is not being released because of his age.
However, Light confirmed that most of the people involved in the early Saturday morning incident that left Seay dead and two others wounded were from the Henry County/Martinsville area.
Despite the two arrests, the case remains open, Light said Wednesday.
“We’re pursuing leads that developed in the last couple of days. ... There are still a bunch of people we’ve got to talk to. Every time we talk to someone, another lead” comes up, he said.
Among those leads is the question of who shot the two other men who were wounded in Saturday’s shooting, Light said. “That is one of those leads we’re following up,” he said.
The incident began with an altercation in Eden’s Icehouse Club and Lounge at 634 Monroe St. early Saturday. Light has said the altercation “worked its way” outside, and officers responding to a report that shots had been fired in the area at 2:28 a.m. found three people had been shot.
Light said they were found in the street outside the nightclub.
Seay, 37, whose address has been listed as both Martinsville and Bassett, was dead at the scene, police said. He suffered multiple gunshot wounds, they said, but Light would not release additional details from the autopsy, which has been completed.
Wounded in the incident were Terris Tewayne Dandridge, 30, of Martinsville, and Jason Maurice Gallant, 25, of Richmond, police said. They were treated and released from Morehead Hospital in Eden and Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center, respectively, hospital officials said.
Light has said as many as 150 people may have been at the nightclub when the incident occurred, and about 30 to 40 were detained for questioning.
Anyone with any information about the incident is asked to contact the Eden Police Department at (336) 623-9240 or (336) 623-9755.
Anyone with information also may contact Rockingham County CrimeStoppers at (336) 349-9683.
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