Newly released North Carolina murder convict quickly arrested over hiding a body

A North Carolina man was let out of prison after being jailed for his invovment in the murder of three others. Upon release, he was given an ankle monitor to wear. He was arrested again four months later after hiding a body while he still wore the ankle monitor.

Raekwon Blount, 26, has been charged with accessory after the fact of murder in the newer case for hiding the body of 23-year-old Zytorius Ruffin of Farmville, NC.

On Wednesday evening, Ruffin went missing and his body was found shortly after, according to reports. He had been shot twice.

A warrant for Blount’s arrest said that he helped an "unnamed offender" by helping them escape imprisonment "by transporting the victim’s body and concealing same in a wooded area on King Farm Rd.”

Blount was rearrested and taken into custody on Jan. 18, 2024.

Pitt County Sheriff Paula Dance said that they discovered Blount had helped hide the body by tracing the route of his ankle monitor that he had been wearing at the time.

Blount was taken to Pitt County jail where he is being held without bond. Additional charges in the case are still possible as the investigation is ongoing.

Blount pled guilty to three counts of 2nd degree murder in 2016 in the Hustle Mart murder case in which three people were killed. The triple murder happened in 2012 when Blount was 14 at the time. He was given a minimum of 9.5 years to a maximum of 12.5 at the time.

When standing before the judge in 2016, Blount told her to make the penalty "hard, but fair" and that he was "trying to get another chance."