Man pleads to 2nd-degree murder in Raleigh billiards hall brawl

A 31-year-old man pleaded guilty in Wake County Superior Court on Wednesday to second-degree murder and a weapons charge lodged against him after a pool hall fight escalated into a 2014 shooting in a South Saunders Street parking lot.

Dudley Lamar Kee was sentenced to at least 34 years in prison for killing Marcus Owens.

Owens was 26 when he was shot outside the Bar and Billiards on South Saunders Street in February 2014. He died on Feb. 18, almost three days after a barroom brawl escalated into a parking lot confrontation.

James Keith Nelson, 25, also was charged with murder in the case. He has not yet come to trial and is still in the Wake jail.

Several days after the shooting, Nelson and Kee, both North Carolina residents, were arrested at a Super 8 Motel in Petersburg, Va., after a multi-state manhunt.

Two women, Erica Delvern Burnell and Christina Nicole Barnes, also from North Carolina, were arrested with them in Petersburg.

All four were charged with being fugitives from justice.

The arrests, a coordinated effort by Raleigh and Petersburg law enforcement officials, were made without incident.

This story was originally published July 8, 2015 at 5:46 PM with the headline "Man pleads to 2nd-degree murder in Raleigh billiards hall brawl."