A 31-year-old Centralia man has been returned to Marion County to face a first-degree murder charge for the 2015 shooting death of then 24-year-old Dustin Rhynes.
Bond on the warrant for Ricky Norwood of Howard Street in Centralia is set at $1-million.
Rynes was found dead in an alley on Centralia’s northeast side where he had apparently died a few hours earlier as a result of a gunshot wound.
State’s Attorney Tim Hudspeth filed the first-degree murder charge last month. Norwood was also indicted on the same murder charge by a Marion County Grand Jury on March 25th.
The charge state’s that Norwood or a person for whose conduct he is legally accountable and without legal justification shot Dustin Rhynes in the body with a firearm knowing such acts created a strong probability of death or great bodily harm to Rhynes or another and thereby caused his death.
No other details have yet been released on what led to the charges against Norwood.
Norwood had been in federal custody and Marion County Sheriff’s Deputies went to FCI Fort Dix, Joint Base MDL, in New Jersey to pick him up on the warrant and return him to the Marion County Jail.
Norwood is scheduled to make his first appearance on the murder charge in Marion County Zoom Criminal Court at one Tuesday afternoon.
