Riverside police make arrest in 2020 homicide

After almost a yr and a half, an arrest has been made within the 2020 capturing dying of a person close to a Riverside park.

The Dec. 22, 2020, killing of 32-year-old father of 9 Cedric Omarr Dempsey befell behind Bordwell Park within the 2000 block of Martin Luther King Boulevard, the Riverside Police Division stated in a information launch.

Investigators decided that the suspect within the killing of Dempsey, who was shot within the head, is 50-year-old Riverside man Arthur Lawrence Akins III, who was arrested at his condo on El Cerrito Avenue Saturday morning.

Police didn’t reveal a suspected motive for the killing, nor did they reveal why they think Akins within the capturing.

Akins is being held in lieu of $1 million bail on the Robert Presley Detention Middle, in line with jail information.

He faces prices of homicide and capturing a firearm inflicting nice bodily damage within the fee of a felony, and he is because of seem in courtroom on the Riverside Corridor of Justice at 8 a.m. Wednesday, courtroom information present.

Anybody with info is requested to contact Detective Bryon Adcox at 951-353-7134 or jadcox@riversideca.gov, or Detective Trevor Childers at 951-353-7130 or TChilders@RiversideCA.gov.

To submit info anonymously, electronic mail RPDTips@RiversideCA.gov.