PETERSBURG – Police have made an arrest in the city’s latest homicide, the fifth of the year.
Lamont Watson Jr., 23, was arrested Tuesday by police and the U.S. Marshals Service in the 800 block of West Wythe Street. He has been charged with first-degree murder and use of a firearm in the commission of a felony and is being held at the Riverside Regional Jail in Prince George County.
Watson is accused of killing 32-year-old James E. Hume II of Petersburg on North Dunlop Street last week. Hume was shot in the head on June 6 and died the next day in a hospital in Richmond, where he had been airlifted.
According to police, the current homicide rate in Petersburg is one digit behind the same time last year.
While authorities were capturing Watson, one of them was reportedly attacked by a woman at the scene. Alayzah Kemonie Coe, 18, was charged with the assault and is being held without bond at RRJ pending a court appearance.
This article originally appeared in The Progress-Index: Petersburg police charge suspect in city’s fifth murder this year
