UPDATED STORY:Hubert, North Carolina -At approximately 10:00 a.m. Thursday, neighbors on Queens Road in Hubert, North Carolina heard screams coming from 108 Queens Road. They were the screams of a family member who had just made a gruesome discovery in the home. Onslow County Sheriff's arrived at the home located at 108 Queens Road where they found the body of Cheryl Dee Burgess.
Her son, Justin Randell Smith, 23, became a “person of interest” in his mother’s death and has now been located by the police. Investigators have charged him with an open count of murder, and he is being held in the Onslow County Jail without bond.
“I was watching TV and heard screaming,” said Krystal McKenzie, who lives directly across the street from 108 Queens Road. “I looked and saw a woman banging on a car screaming, ‘No! No!’”
Within minutes, the Sheriff’s Department and an ambulance arrived, said Eugene Vaughn, another neighbor. After a few minutes, the ambulance left empty.
Onslow County Sheriff Ed Brown confirmed that the woman was dead when deputies arrived. Sheriff’s detectives and crime scene investigators spent a rainy afternoon at 108 Queens Road talking to witnesses and processing the scene.
The woman’s body was transported to the morgue at Onslow Memorial Hospital and Dr. John Alameida will perform an autopsy.
Neighbor, Krystal McKenzie said it had been quiet across the street for a few months, but before that, loud arguments between Smith and other family members would wake neighbors up in the middle of the night.
“(Smith) would be out in the front yard at 4 a.m. kicking the trash can over and shouting profanity,” McKenzie said.
Smith’s criminal conviction history includes assault of a government official on New Year’s Eve 2008, and several larceny charges and breaking and entering.
The time period neighbors said there were no altercations at 108 Queens Road coincides with Smith’s incarceration for probation revocation from April to until the end of June.
“I was watching TV and heard screaming,” said Krystal McKenzie, who lives directly across the street from 108 Queens Road. “I looked and saw a woman banging on a car screaming, ‘No! No!’”
Within minutes, the Sheriff’s Department and an ambulance arrived, said Eugene Vaughn, another neighbor. After a few minutes, the ambulance left empty.
Onslow County Sheriff Ed Brown confirmed that the woman was dead when deputies arrived. Sheriff’s detectives and crime scene investigators spent a rainy afternoon at 108 Queens Road talking to witnesses and processing the scene.
The woman’s body was transported to the morgue at Onslow Memorial Hospital and Dr. John Alameida will perform an autopsy.
Neighbor, Krystal McKenzie said it had been quiet across the street for a few months, but before that, loud arguments between Smith and other family members would wake neighbors up in the middle of the night.
“(Smith) would be out in the front yard at 4 a.m. kicking the trash can over and shouting profanity,” McKenzie said.
Smith’s criminal conviction history includes assault of a government official on New Year’s Eve 2008, and several larceny charges and breaking and entering.
The time period neighbors said there were no altercations at 108 Queens Road coincides with Smith’s incarceration for probation revocation from April to until the end of June.
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