A search warrant returned in the case of a double murder last month in Roanoke Rapids shows that Eric Lamont Martin Jr. was picked up at his mother’s house in Raleigh and returned there after the fatal shootings of a 15-year-old girl and a 20-year-old man.

The search warrant, based on an investigation by the Roanoke Rapids Police Department, was requested by a Wake County Sheriff’s Office detective and executed on July 4. 

Martin was apprehended at the Anthony Drive residence as he walked out the front door, according to the warrant.

The affidavit states that the RRPD recovered .380-caliber and .223-caliber AR-style shell casings at the crime scene, which provided probable cause to search his mother’s house for related weapons and ammunition.

The following items were seized:

A Blazer ammunition box containing 35 rounds of ammo.

A .22-caliber spent round.

A Smith & Wesson SD 9 VE 9mm handgun, flagged as stolen out of Bertie County.

Yellow gun grips.

A Remington Ranch Hand .22 weapon with 93 rounds of .22 Long Rifle ammunition.

An empty box of Fiocchi 9 Corto .380 Auto Full Metal Jacket Hollow Point 90-grain ammunition — custody transferred to the RRPD.

A black Ruger LCP .380 Auto handgun with a magazine and ammunition — custody transferred to the RRPD.

A clear Seahorse box containing loose ammunition and a Ziploc bag with ammo — custody transferred to the RRPD.

The RRPD has charged Martin in the June 22 shooting deaths of Mariah Thompson and Patrick Shane Faircloth, both of Whiteville. He also faces a murder charge in Columbus County stemming from the June 11 shooting death of Rapheal Gowans. 

Martin is scheduled for a hearing in Halifax County District Court on Tuesday.

In addition to Martin, Isaiah Napoleon Cooper has been charged as an accessory in both cases and is being held under a $400,000 secured bond in Columbus County, according to court records. Cooper is tentatively scheduled to appear in Halifax County District Court on July 23.