Two individuals apprehended Thursday after being on the run for nearly a week following a shooting incident in Boone County have been charged with capital murder.
Forty-nine-year-old Jason Stockstill and 37-year-old Heather Scallion are being held without bond in the Boone County Jail and Detention Center.
Stockstill and Scallion were being sought in connection with the shooting death of 59-year-old Boone County resident Tim Blackburn. Boone County Sheriff Tim Roberson says the shooting incident occurred around 10:30 a.m. on Oct. 14 at a rural residence in Boone County. Blackburn’s pickup truck was also reportedly taken from the scene. Searcy County Sheriff Kenny Cassell says he later located the vehicle on U.S. Highway 65 in St. Joe and gave chase. As other units responded, the vehicle turned into Grinder’s Ferry, and its occupants bailed out and fled on foot.
Stockstill and Scallion were apprehended at 3:25 Thursday afternoon by Sheriff Cassell and Drug Task Force agents Macy Brown and Heath Jones. They were taken to the Searcy County Detention Center for processing and later transported to Boone County.
In addition to capital murder, both face charges of theft of a vehicle valued at less the $25,000 but greater the $5,000, possession of a firearm by certain persons and felony with a firearm. The electronic jail log is also showing Stockstill facing charges of second-degree domestic battering with physical injury, first-degree kidnapping and false imprisonment with risk of serious injury and first-degree terroristic threatening of physical injury. He is also being charged as a habitual offender.
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