Three charged with murder in Blytheville park shooting

BLYTHEVILLE — Three people are in jail after being charged with first-degree murder in the killing of a Blytheville man on Memorial Day, 2nd Judicial Circuit Prosecutor Scott Ellington said Thursday.

Police accused the three of fatally shooting Richard Wilkins Jr., 28, in Williams Park in south-central Blytheville during an altercation about 8:30 p.m. Monday. He was shot in the right pelvic area, police said. Wilkins was taken by private vehicle to Great River Medical Center in Blytheville, where he died.

Quadrell Dequane Bledsoe, 22, and Gerome Spiller, 16, both of Blytheville, surrendered to police Tuesday. Cameron Wells, 18, of Blytheville turned himself over to authorities Wednesday.

Osceola District Court Judge Donald Betterton set bail of $500,000 for Wells, $250,000 for Bledsoe and $100,000 for Spiller, who will be tried as an adult, Ellington said.

Wells also faces a charge of possession of a firearm by a certain person, Ellington said.

According to an arrest affidavit filed in Mississippi County Circuit Court, Wilkins wasn’t the intended victim of the shooting. Capt. Scott Adams, commander of the Blytheville Police Department’s Criminal Investigation Division, said the three suspects had been “having problems” with Renaldre Harris, Wilkins’ brother, for a month.