Three men have been charged in connection to a homicide that occurred in Eden in 2016. According to the Rockingham County Sheriff’s Office, deputies responded to the intersection of N.C. Hwy. 14 and Harrington Highway in Eden for a reported motor vehicle accident on November 20, 2016 at 1 am.
Upon arrival deputies found a silver van located in the wooded area just off the roadway. Inside the van they found 23-year-old Cornelius Clark, of Reidsville, deceased from a gunshot wound.
In late 2024, the Rockingham Sheriff’s Office Detective Division, was able to utilize new technologies that provided sufficient evidence to charge Demetrius Deshawn Hairston, 34, who is currently incarcerated in the N.C. Bureau of Prisons, with the First-Degree Murder of Cornelius Clark…