Police on Tuesday arrested a fourth man wanted in connection with the robbery of New Lite Grocery Sunday night on Highway 12 West.
Sha”kil Harris, 20, of 513 Aztec Drive was arrested and charged Tuesday by the Starkville Police Department with armed robbery. Harris” three alleged accomplices in the robbery, Henry Lee Neal, 19, and brothers Derrick Lewis Hill, 15, and Darius Lee Kennard Hill, 16, were arrested Sunday night.
The charges against the group stem from an incident Sunday at approximately 7:54 p.m., when two suspects entered New Lite Grocery armed with a shotgun and demanded cash. The suspects wore bags over their heads to conceal their identities, police said.
After taking an undisclosed amount of money, the men fled on foot. Officers responded immediately to the scene, canvassed the area and developed leads. Neal and the Hills were apprehended later that night.
Investigators are looking at a possible connection between the New Lite Grocery robbery and the Nov. 27 hold-up of the Down the Hatch convenience store, located at the corner of Russell Street and Gillespie Street. During the Down the Hatch robbery, two men approached the store while a clerk stood outside. One of the men covered his face with a garbage bag and the other covered his face with a backpack, so the clerk ran across the street and called 911, according to police. The suspects then took an undetermined amount of cash from the store and fled on foot.
Anyone with information on the Down the Hatch robbery can call Starkville police at 662-323-4131 or Golden Triangle Crime Stoppers at 1-800-530-7151.
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