Saturday's Internet Edition, May 17, 2008.
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| Not wanting to be seen, murder suspect Leroy Tilley walks backwards after a hearing in Davie court last week, flanked by Davie Sheriff’s Reserve Deputy Steve Moxley and Jailer Darrell Burch. - Photo by Robin Snow |
Leroy Tilley Jr., 26, of 565 Pudding Ridge Road, Mocksville was charged on April 1 in the strangulation death of his girlfriend, Thomasina Jones.
Jones body was discovered at Lakewood Motel and Apartments, 1642 US 601 S., Mocksville on March 31 at 10:40 a.m. by the maid service. Tilley and Jones had been staying together at the motel.
Tilley was incarcerated at Davie Detention Center the next day, but was transferred for safekeeping to Raleigh’s Central Prison on May 15 after episodes of misconduct, according to Chief Jailer Wendell Sain.
According to Davie Sheriff’s Office Capt. J.D. Hartman, Tilley removed his clothes, put them in a light fixture, and set them on fire; he also tripped one of the sprinklers at the jail and flooded an area; and has spit and thrown bodily fluids on jailers.
He was brought back to Davie for last week’s superior court session but was returned to Raleigh the next day, according to Sain.
No new charges against Tilley have been filed ... subscribe to the Davie County Enterprise Record, P.O. Box 99, Mocksville, N.C. 27028.