Jermaine F. Harris was indicted this month on gun and second-degree murder charges

Jermaine F. Harris was indicted this month on gun and second-degree murder charges.
Henrico County police have arrested a second suspect in the violent death last year of Vincent Lamont Eldridge, who was gunned down at his apartment door.
Police said Jermaine F. Harris, 21, was arrested during a traffic stop Wednesday night. Harris, who lives in the Highland Springs area, was indicted this month on gun and second-degree murder charges in the case.Eldridge, 20, lived in the 500 block of North Laburnum Avenue. Witnesses have said that two men were involved in the May 18 shooting. At the February trial of another person charged in the case, an investigator identified Harris as the second suspect.In the February trial, however, a jury deadlocked in trying to reach a verdict against the other man, Deron M. Walker, who was 18 at the time of the shooting.
Testimony at trial included statements from a jail inmate who said Walker acknowledged involvement. But Walker's lawyer argued that descriptions of the suspects were vague and that police had failed to secure DNA evidence in the case.He also argued that the trajectory of the bullet that killed Eldridge was inconsistent with Walker's height.

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