In the instance ‘Eric Coley Charged In Murders Of Devone Brown And Destiny Wiggins’ Police in eastern North Carolina have arrested a man they say shot and killed a man and a woman found dead in the front seat of a car, while two toddlers shivered from the cold for hours in the back seat.
Eric Coley Charged In Murders Of Devone Brown And Destiny Wiggins
The Rocky Mount Police Department said it has charged 42-year-old Eric Coley with the deaths of Devone Brown and Destiny Wiggins.
Brown 28, and Wiggins, 24, were found dead in a car parked in a business employee lot early Thursday morning, as CrimeOnline previously reported. Neither of them worked at the business. Their bodies were found by Barnhill Construction employees as they arrived for work.
The two children in the back seat were rushed to UNC Nash Healthcare for treatment of exposure to the cold — temperatures in Rocky Mount dipped into the low 30s overnight that day. The toddlers were two of Wiggins’ four children. Rocky Mount Police Chief Robert Hassell said the girls were now with family members and “doing well.”
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What we know about the case comes from a press conference that happened Thursday morning. In that, Police Chief Robert Hassell identified the two murdered adults as 24-year-old Destiny Wiggins and 28-year-old Devone Brown. The surviving children were described as being “toddler age.”
Workers arriving Thursday morning at Barnhill Construction called the police around 6 Thursday morning when they saw a car in the employee parking with Wiggins, Brown and the two children inside.
The children were sent to the hospital to be checked out due to how long they had been in the car exposed to the cold weather. After being checked out and rejoined by their family, the children reportedly were doing well.
Police said Coley has been charged with two counts of first-degree murder and possession of a firearm by a felon. Investigators have not revealed what may have led up to the shooting.
WITN reported that Cole is being held without bond and is due in court Monday morning.
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