Halifax County Superior Court Judge Alma Hinton did say she will schedule another bond hearing for Jovonte Boone, who is currently being held without opportunity for bail, in January but wants the state and defense to provide her with the discovery found this far in the case.

Assistant District Attorney Keith Werner told the court during an administrative session the “state is opposed to any bond reduction. The state feels Mr. Boone is the primary defendant.”

Werner said the motive appears to be an apparent robbery.

Werner said a fire was set  after the victim, Nestor Salazar Moctexuma, 51, was killed.

Boone’s attorney, Jamal Summey, explained no witnesses have tied his client to being at the Airlie road trailer were Moctexuma was found murdered.

Summey alleged, however, Boone’s co-defendant, Shenna Kay Riley, was accepting money for sexual favors with the victim. “Witnesses say they saw (Shenna) Riley at the trailer.”

Summey told the court his client never left the area after the murder. “He was trying to figure a way out to surrender.”

Summey asked Hinton to lower Boone’s bond to $150,000. “With bond reduction he will live with his mother and I believe there is house arrest.”

Werner, however, called Boone “an extreme flight risk.”

He said it wasn’t that Boone was trying to figure out how to surrender, but the dragnet thrown around him which meant “he had no place to go.”