Rocky Mount police investigators relied on information from a suspected accomplice to solve the Sept. 4 murder of a Northern Nash High School student, according to search warrants filed with the Nash County Clerk of Court.

While battling a fire at the home of 17-year-old Chavalis Boyd on Silverleaf Road four months ago, firefighters found the Rocky Mount teen dead in the front bedroom. An autopsy conducted a few days later determined Boyd had been shot to death before the fire was set, investigators said.

Police have arrested six people in connection to Boyd’s murder during the past few months, and authorities say more arrests could be forthcoming in what they said they believe was a complicated robbery plot.

The search warrants related to the investigation construct a picture of the Rocky Mount Police Department’s case against the suspects and offer a preview of how the case might play out in court. Information from a suspected accomplice in the robbery, 21-year-old Quantisia Lushun Moss, has served as an anchor of the police investigation, according to court records.

In a statement to investigators a few weeks after the murder, Moss told police 32-year-old Nathan Jones and his brother, 20-year-old Brian Carney, had planned to rob Boyd’s home the night the teen was killed. The men left Carney’s apartment on the 200 block of Winstead Avenue, Moss told authorities after her arrest, and when they returned, Carney allegedly told Moss that the robbery went awry and that Boyd was shot and killed.

According to court documents, Moss told lead investigator Tim Hathaway that Carney hid stolen jewelry and other items from the robbery in a storm drain near his apartment.

After conducting a search of Carney’s apartment and a nearby drain, investigators reported finding Boyd’s cell phone, a silver charm owned by the teen and other items from the robbery, as well as 9mm bullets, shotgun shells and an empty bleach container.

The fire at Boyd’s home was set near his bed, Rocky Mount Fire Chief Keith Harris said, but it was unclear to fire investigators if an accelerant was used. Bleach by itself is not flammable, Harris said, but sometimes the household chemical is used to make an “explosive cocktail of sorts,” he said.

“We didn’t find any evidence of an accelerant, but that doesn’t mean one wasn’t used,” Harris said.

Nearly a month after Moss identified Carney and Jones as suspects, the two men were arrested in Phoenix, Ariz., by authorities there and charged with first-degree murder, armed robbery and first-degree burglary. A few days later, Rocky Mount police arrested Corey Jermaine Lee, 32, and charged him in the robbery, arson and murder.

Lee is the only suspect charged so far with setting the fire.

Police also have arrested Moss, Juan Ashaki Simmons, 33, and Shana Ann Hawkins, 25, and charged them as accomplices in the murder investigation.

More arrests could be coming, Criminal Investigations Division Commander Capt. Laura Fahnestock said.

“This is a very intricate case, and at this point, it is our belief that this was planned,” Fahnestock said in December after the department arrested Hawkins. “At the very least, the robbery was planned. There could be more arrests coming, and there are likely some additional charges stemming from this case.

“Anyone who had anything to do with this horrendous incident, we are working to find them, and we will arrest them.”

All the suspects arrested so far in the case are scheduled to appear in court Jan. 25 in Nashville. A Nash County grand jury indicted each of the suspects in December.

Anyone with information about the case is asked to contact Twin County Crime Stoppers at 252-977-1111 or e-mail crimestoppers@rockymountnc.gov.