Dothan police have filed capital murder charges against two people, including a 16-year-old, in the slaying of a man during a weekend robbery.
Court records show Dothan police investigators charged Antwain Jermon Wingard with shooting Jarvis Denard Daffin to death on Friday during the theft of cash. Records also say police charged Wingard with abducting Daffin a day earlier, during which he allegedly demanded Daffin give him money from his income tax return. Records also say that when Daffin refused to comply he was killed.
According to a Dothan police statement, police arrested Wingard on Tuesday and charged him with capital murder, first-degree robbery and first-degree kidnapping.
Wingard is being held without bail on all three charges.
Dothan Police Sgt. Will Glover said police investigators have also charged a second man, 20-year-old Justice Knight, in the slaying of the 24-year-old Daffin. Knight faces the same charges, but is wanted by police.
Glover encouraged people not to approach Knight, calling him “armed and dangerous.”
“This wasn’t a random act,” Dothan Police Lt. Tony Luker said. “We think he’s fled the Dothan area.”
But neither Glover nor Luker would say how Wingard and Knight knew Daffin because of the ongoing investigation.
Glover said Wingard gave police a statement after investigators interviewed him about the offenses. He declined to say what Wingard told police.
According to a police statement, investigators learned Daffin was last seen going to Headland with two other men.
Investigators developed more information that led them to believe Daffin was killed by a single gunshot wound during the trip to Henry County. Authorities found Daffin’s body in a wooded area in the Tumbleton community north of Headland on Sunday.
The Henry County Sheriff’s Office, Headland Police Department and Alabama Bureau of Investigation assisted in the investigation.
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