Raleigh police arrest 3rd man in double homicide that killed NC rapper Box Carlito
This story was updated at 2:30 p.m. Sept. 19, 2019.
Police have arrested a third suspect in a shooting that killed two people, one of them a local hip-hop artist, Sept. 4.
Jesse Dontez Frazier, 22, has been charged with two counts of murder in connection with the deaths of Vincente Arocho and Jaquan Tyrone Dumas, police said in a news release Thursday.
Police had previously charged Jonathan Isaiah Manning, 21, and Tyshon Gerod Solomon, 22, with first-degree murder in the deaths.
Arocho, 28, and Dumas, 31, were shot in the 2700 block of Community Drive, according to a Raleigh Police Department news release.
Arocho was declared dead at the scene and Dumas was taken to WakeMed, where he died from his injuries, authorities said.
The shooting came a day after Arocho bailed Dumas out of Wake County Detention Center on Tuesday The News & Observer previously reported.
Arocho was a part of North Carolina’s hip-hop scene. He went by the stage name of Box Carlito, according to Urban Islandz.
Both Manning and Solomon have previously been convicted of felonies. Solomon served time for assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill in 2017, according to court documents.
This story was originally published September 9, 2019 at 2:25 PM.