Statesville Man Charged With Cold Case Murders Dating Back To 1992

A suspect in a 30-year-old double homicide has been extradited to Iredell County to face felony charges.

The Statesville Police Department announced Friday that Sheldon Demetrius Summers, 54, is being held in the Iredell County Detention Center following his extradition from New Jersey.

Summers, one of two suspects in the 1992 slaying of Willie Gene Allison and Michael Scott III, was processed November 8th in Statesville and ordered held without bond on two counts of first-degree murder. He is also charged with two counts of robbery with a dangerous weapon and count of assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill inflicting serious injury.

Following a lengthy cold investigation of the robbery and shooting on Washington Street, Statesville Police announced in early August that it had secured indictments charging Summers and Reaco Wesley Burton, 50, with numerous felonies.

Summers was arrested on August 16 during a traffic stop in Hope, N.J., by the New Jersey State Police.

Burton is serving a 62-plus year sentence in state prison for an unrelated homicide, robbery, and assault in Iredell County.

Photo: Statesville Police Department