Zy’Torious Ja’hod Ruffin, 23, of Farmville, North Carolina, was reported missing on January 17, 2024. Investigators traced movements of 24-year-old Raekwon Terrell Blount using his ankle monitor to a rural area off King Farm Road, where Ruffin’s body was found several feet into a wooded area among thick briars and tall grass. The autopsy showed Ruffin had been shot in the left arm and mid-back, findings that indicate he was killed elsewhere before his body was dumped at that location.

Blount was arrested January 18, 2024, and charged with accessory after the fact to murder; he was held at the Pitt County Detention Center on $2 million bond. In March 2024, 26-year-old Anton Lamont Dixon of Greenville was arrested and charged with accessory after the fact to murder and booked on a $1 million secured bond, with additional outstanding orders pushing his total bond over $6 million. As of December 2024, no one has been charged with Ruffin’s murder and the investigation remains active.

If anyone knew Ruffin, his movements in mid-January 2024, or saw activity near King Farm Road, please share information with investigators.