50-year-old Arthur Lawrence Akins III of Riverside was arrested at his apartment on El Cerrito Avenue this past Saturday morning in connection with the December 22nd, 2020 killing of 32-year-old Cedric Omarr Dempsey. Riverside police said that Dempsey, who was a father of nine, was shot in the head behind Bordwell Park in the 2000 block of Martin Luther King Boulevard in Riverside.
Akins is being held on $1 million bail and is facing charges of murder and shooting a firearm causing great bodily injury in the commission of a felony.
If you have any information on this case, please contact Detective Trevor Childers at 951-353-7130 or TChilders@RiversideCA.gov or Detective Bryon Adcox at 951-353-7134 or jadcox@riversideca.gov.
Full story at ktla.com and Riverside Police Department Facebook post.