murder in the hamptons

Suspect in 2002 Hampton murder in court

The man charged with the 2002 murder of a Hampton high school athlete man was in court Tuesday.

Bradley Lamar Holmes is accused of killing 19-year-old Christopher Tromly, a star athlete at Kecoughtan High School. Tromy was shot May 21, 2002 at an ATM at Willow Oaks Shopping Center, which is near his parents’ home.

While making the withdrawal, someone stuck a gun in his car window and fired. Tromly was hit three times, but he managed to drive three blocks to a friend’s home.

Tromly died at the hospital on May 23 after being declared brain dead.

Bradley, 25, was arrested on January 29 on charges of first-degree murder, attempted robbery and use of a firearm.

He's retained an attorney and has a preliminary hearing in May, Curtis said.

Holmes remains in custody.

North Hampton man indicted in murder case

A North Hampton man was indicted last week on charges of conspiracy to commit murder and accomplice to second degree murder for his alleged role in the 2005 murder of 57-year-old handyman, Jack Reid Sr.

The indictments were returned by a Rockingham County Superior Court grand jury on Feb. 4 and allege Robin Knight, 57, of North Hampton, conspired with millionaire John Brooks to kill Reid and dispose of his body. Brooks, 56, was convicted of capital murder in October and faces the death penalty. Witnesses testified that Brooks ordered and participated in the murder because he believed Reid stole from him while moving some of his belongings in 2003.

According to the indictment, Knight called Reid on a pre-paid cell phone and arranged a meeting in the Deerfield barn where he was murdered. The indictment alleges Knight helped wrap Reid’s corpse in a tarp, left it in the back of his pickup truck in Saugus, Mass., and helped clean his blood that was spilled inside the barn.

The indictment also alleges Knight helped remove wood from the portion of the barn where Reid was killed, disposed of it in Danville and replaced it with new wood, before disposing the clothing he was wearing and the keys to Reid’s truck. Knight is also alleged to have later met Brooks and coconspirators Joseph Vrooman and Michael Benton in Las Vegas “to devise a cover story to explain the murder of Jack Reid Sr,” according to the indictment by Assistant Attorneys General, Janice Rundles and Michael Lewis.

Knight was previously indicted for conspiracy to commit murder and being an accomplice to first degree murder and did not testify during Brooks’ lengthy trial. He has been held on a half-million dollars cash bail since his 2006 arrest.

Also indicted by the Feb. 4 Rockingham County grand jury was Brooks’ son Jesse, 32, of Las Vegas. He was indicted on a count of conspiracy to commit murder, alleging he assisted in the murder plot.