{"id":33539,"date":"2026-03-17T05:59:04","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T05:59:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/33539\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T05:59:04","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T05:59:04","slug":"third-person-charged-in-new-bern-murder-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/33539\/","title":{"rendered":"Third Person Charged in New Bern Murder Investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Bern Police have arrested a third suspect involved in the murder of Lamark Simmons that occurred on Sunday, March 8, 2026, at 1:31 a.m.  Deion-te Becton, 26 years old, was arrested today at 10:00 a.m. and has been charged with:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Open Count of Murder <\/p>\n<p>Becton is being held at the Craven County Jail without bond.  His first appearance is currently set for March 17, 2026, at 9:00 a.m. Yashua Dyer\u2019s first appearance was March 9, and DeQuante Berry\u2019s first appearance was March 10.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>New Bern Police had previously charged DeQuante Berry 26, with Murder and Yashua Dyer with Accessory After the Fact in connection to the case.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n<p><br style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"\/>This investigation remains active and ongoing.  Anyone with information related to this shooting is encouraged to contact the New Bern Police Department at (252) 633-2020 or the TIPS line at (252) 636-5034. You may also reach the Craven County Crime Stoppers line at (252) 633-5141 or submit an online tip at p3tips.com\/986.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New Bern Police have arrested a third suspect involved in the murder of Lamark Simmons that occurred on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33540,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[104,1655,1654,107,1202],"class_list":{"0":"post-33539","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bern","8":"tag-bern","9":"tag-crime","10":"tag-eastern-nc","11":"tag-new-bern","12":"tag-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/116242990141988773","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33539","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=33539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33539\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}