By John Howell Sr.
A November grand jury meeting in the First Court District produced no murder indictments in the shooting death of Roderick Bobo, a Sardis teenager gunned down on the grounds of North Panola High School August 23 following at football game.

“We presented it as a capital murder case,” Panola County Sheriff’s Dept. investigator Major Barry Thompson said.

The grand jurors returned a five-count indictment that indicts four men for possessing a handgun and displaying it in a threatening manner on school property, court records state. One of the men, Jamarcus Arnold, 22, is also charged with aggravated assault.

Darius Dontae McNeil, 21; Quinterious Marshard Mabry, 18; and Bobby Boyce, 21 were arrested and charged with capital murder following the shooting that left Bobo dead and attracted regional media focus on enmity between rival gangs in Panola County and northwest Mississippi.

The indictment from the Nov. 13, 2013 grand jury session at the Sardis Courthouse became public after being returned following service during December. It lists McNeil, Mabry and Boyce each in identically-worded Counts One through Three charging them with the threatening weapon display on school grounds.

The Fourth Count states the identical indictment for Arnold.

Count Five also indicts Arnold for “shooting into the vehicle occupied by Jarvis Boyce, Quinterious Mabry, Bobby Boyce, Darius McNeil and Deantwon Loveberry” with a handgun.
Assistant District Attorney Jay Hale said that capital murder indictments were presented against McNeil, Mabry and Boyce in addition to the possession of possession of handgun on school property, but the grand jurors did not indict them on that charge.