{"id":18433,"date":"2026-02-25T16:50:27","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T16:50:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/18433\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T16:50:27","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T16:50:27","slug":"suspect-in-2023-murder-of-new-bern-toddler-extradited-to-craven-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/18433\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspect in 2023 murder of New Bern toddler extradited to Craven County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">NEW BERN, N.C. (WITN) &#8211; One of two men recently arrested for the murder of a 19-month-old toddler is in court this morning. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Lawrence Everett will make his first appearance at the Craven County Courthouse today after he was arrested and extradited from Johnson City, Tennessee, for the murder of Nia\u2019Loni Sheptock. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Earlier this month, New Bern police said they<a href=\"https:\/\/www.witn.com\/2025\/08\/14\/two-arrested-2023-new-bern-toddler-murder\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.witn.com\/2025\/08\/14\/two-arrested-2023-new-bern-toddler-murder\/\"> arrested Everett and Kiyveon Pitts<\/a> in Nia\u2019Loni\u2019s death, who was shot while in her father\u2019s car on La Grange Street on July 4, 2023.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Pitts was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.witn.com\/2025\/08\/14\/police-announce-new-developements-2023-murder-new-bern-toddler\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.witn.com\/2025\/08\/14\/police-announce-new-developements-2023-murder-new-bern-toddler\/\">denied bond<\/a> after his arrest. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Investigators believe the shots were fired from another vehicle, and her father, Nathan Sheptock, was also wounded in the shooting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The toddler\u2019s mother said Sheptock was supposed to take Nia\u2019Loni to a fireworks show to celebrate the holiday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Nathan Sheptock <a href=\"https:\/\/www.witn.com\/2023\/08\/11\/father-toddler-killed-new-bern-facing-more-charges\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.witn.com\/2023\/08\/11\/father-toddler-killed-new-bern-facing-more-charges\/\" target=\"_blank\">was charged with drug and gun offenses<\/a> after the shooting. The father is currently on parole.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Police say the shooting was gang-related and said they followed leads that led them to arrest Pitts and Everett.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 WITN. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW BERN, N.C. (WITN) &#8211; One of two men recently arrested for the murder of a 19-month-old toddler&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18434,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[104,12604,11135,12602,12206,107,12603,11364,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-18433","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bern","8":"tag-bern","9":"tag-craven-county-courthouse","10":"tag-hearing","11":"tag-lawrence-everett","12":"tag-murder","13":"tag-new-bern","14":"tag-nialoni-sheptock","15":"tag-toddler","16":"tag-witn"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18433\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}