By Associated Press - Thursday, March 11, 2021

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) - Police have arrested a third person in the shooting death earlier this month of a man whose body was found inside a Lincoln home.

Officers arrested 25-year-old Deontae Rush of Omaha on Wednesday in connection with the March 1 death of 33-year-old James Shekie, Lincoln police said in a news release Thursday. Rush had been charged in a warrant issued last week with first-degree murder in Shekie’s death.

A brother and sister also face charges in the case. Marques Moten, 31, of Omaha, and his 17-year-old sister each are charged with conspiracy to commit a felony. The AP does not typically name juveniles charged with a crime.

Court documents say the three planned to steal marijuana from Shekie’s trailer home in Lincoln, where the teenage girl had lived with Shekie for a time. Police believe all three drove together to the trailer, but that Rush went in alone to take the drugs and shot Shekie during the robbery.

Moten and the girl drove away from the trailer when they heard the gunshots, police said, leaving Rush behind.

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