Staff report
A 22-year-old Hamlet man has been arrested and charged in the beating death of Vernon Mitchell Everett.
Natasia Equaility Hubbard, of King Drive, was charged with murder and taken into custody on Dec. 5. Authorities credited Hubbard’s apprehension through a combination of information from the public and the work of detectives at the Criminal Investigation Division, led by Capt. Jay Childers of the Richmond County Sheriff’s Office.
Everett, 55, was found lying on the floor of his Winona Street home unconscious on Nov. 23 by Richmond County sheriff’s deputies and Hamlet Fire and Rescue personnel. Everett was transported to Carolinas Medical Center in Charlotte. He died Friday as a result of injuries sustained in the attack that night.
Hubbard was processed and held in the Richmond County Jail without bond.