A search warrant is revealing new details into the murder of Clifton Sykes Junior.WILMINGTON, NC (WECT) – More details are being revealed
regarding the murder of Clifton Sykes Junior.
Sykes was bound by duct tape before being shot and killed in
his home along North 8th Street in December.
According to a search warrant obtained by WECT.com, Sykes
and a woman by the name of Mimi Mercedez Wyndham were in the bedroom of the
home when some people busted through the backdoor with handguns. The search
warrant notes the intruders were wearing red bandanas over their faces.
It goes on to state that the intruders then bound Sykes and
Wyndham with duct tape and ransacked the house. They were allegedly looking for
jewelry, cell phones and money.
When officers got to the house, they found Sykes on the
kitchen floor. He reportedly had an apparent gunshot wound to the chest. The
warrant states that items looked like they had been tossed around and it
appeared that there had been a struggle between the victims and intruders.
Items were also found on the sidewalk near the home in which
detectives believe the intruders may have dropped on the way out of the home.
Those items include watches, cell phone and some gun magazines.
Other items seized during the search include rolls of duct
tape, tape from a bed frame in the bedroom, DNA swabs and samples of blood on
the floor.
Detectives also found two jars of "wet leafy substance." They
were located in the freezer. There was also a plastic baggie of a "green leafy
substance" in the refrigerator.
No arrests have been made in this case.
