Jermaine Lamonte Montgomery, 34, will likely be indicted this afternoon on capital murder charges in the stabbing death of Yong Hui Zhang, The Free Lance-Star has learned.
The Spotsylvania County Sheriff’s Office announced this morning that they are planning a joint press conference with the Spotsylvania commonwealth’s attorney’s office regarding the murder of Zhang, who was abducted while making a delivery for his family’s restaurant, China Express, and was later killed.
First Sgt. Liz Scott of the Spotsylvania County Sheriff’s Office said she could not yet confirm Montgomery’s charges because a special grand jury will meet at 1 p.m. to determine whether the indictment is appropriate in Spotsylvania.
Scott said Commonwealth’s Attorney Bill Neely will be releasing information regarding the case at the 3 p.m. press conference.
Montgomery is already charged in the city of Fredericksburg with abduction, carjacking and credit card theft in the events that led up to Zhang’s death.
Montgomery’s girlfriend, Marcey Odessa White, 36, is charged with the same crimes but is not expected to be charged in the murder this afternoon.
Their preliminary hearings on the Fredericksburg charges are scheduled for tomorrow in General District Court.
Scott said Spotsylvania Detective Troy Skebo has been working on the case in Spotsylvania for at least a week.
According to evidence previously released by the Fredericksburg Police Department, Zhang was abducted July 3 during a nighttime delivery for China Express.
His body was then found in Sussex County on July 6 and although he was said to have severe head trauma, including a missing ear and a gauged out eye, a stab-wound to the chest was ruled by the medical examiner as his cause of death.
There has not yet been indication of what evidence ties the murder location to Spotsylvania, but Fredericksburg Police have previously said that White and Montgomery were caught on a security camera at a Spotsylvania gas station using a credit card belonging to Zhang after he was reported missing.
Police arrested White and Montgomery in Sussex after they used the same credit card at a Wal-mart there the next day.