Bradley Charles Weadon, 33, of Blanch, North Carolina, was arrested in Roxboro, N.C., Wednesday and charged with first degree murder following an alleged altercation on Dabney Road in Halifax County.
"I received a call Tuesday night to an accident with a pedestrian about 10:40 p.m," said Trooper B.E. Jones of the Virginia State Police.
Jones said when he arrived at the scene, he discovered the body of Jamie Scott Wilkins, 22, of Alton lying in a ditch.
"Wilkins was dead at the scene when I arrived," Jones said.
The trooper said that witnesses told him that Wilkins had been arguing with the passengers of the 1999 Ford F-250 pickup.
"Weadon, who was driving, put the truck in reverse and started backing up," the trooper said. "Wilkins was hanging on to the door trying to keep up running.
"They came to a ditch.
"When the rear of the vehicle struck the ditch, Wilkins lost his grip and fell," Jones said.
The truck apparently ran over Wilkins' head, according to the trooper.
"Weadon then left the scene," Jones observed.
The truck was owned by Earth Movers, Inc., of Roxboro, N.C.
There were four other occupants of the truck, according to Jones.
"Weadon's wife, Stephanie Smith Wilkins, age unknown, and their two children, one two years old and one only two months old, were in the rear compartment of the cab of the truck," Jones said.
"Sitting in the right front passenger seat of the truck was Christopher Allen Loftis, age unknown, of Alton," he added.
Jones said alcohol was believed to be a factor in the incident.
Following the accident and the investigation, a warrant for first degree murder was issued against Weadon.
"Shortly after the warrant was entered, Weadon turned himself in to the Person County Sheriff's Department," Jones said.
Weadon was extradited to Halifax County yesterday.
When asked about additional charges against the passengers, Jones declined to comment.

South Boston Town Manager Ted Daniel has been named as defendant in a lawsuit that seeks to have the 25 mph speed limit on North Main Street overturned.
The suit challenges Daniel's claim that the speed limit on North Main is based on it being a residential district.
Joe Bahen, a Richmond resident, has taken up the fight to get speed limits changed across the state.
Daniel received a faxed copy of the suit yesterday.
"I have no comment at this time," Daniel said yesterday.
"We'll review it with our attorneys and see where we go from there," the town manager added.
In the suit, Bahen challenges Daniel's claim that the stretch of road is a residential district.
Bahen, who is a civil engineer by profession, has become something of a celebrity following his success in having several illegally posted speed limits changed throughout the state.
He said he was alerted to the problem by a local citizen of Halifax County on June 1.
"My investigation revealed that the 25 mph speed limit north of Hamilton Boulevard had been posted without authority in law, and without the slightest engineering justification whatsoever," he added.
Bahen said that in order to change the speed limit, a governing body must make an ordinance change based on an engineering and traffic investigation.
"The speed limit on Route 129 was decreased on May 6, 1996, by a city council 'motion,' not an ordinance," Bahen said.
"The motion was based on a petition signed by 21 citizens, not the required engineering and traffic investigation," Bahen said.
"It's ridiculous that a speed limit on a road that handles over 10,000 vehicles per day was changed based on 21 signatures," he added.
During council's July work session, the issue was addressed and the town decided to conduct a traffic and engineering study along North Main Street.
But Bahen said yesterday that Daniel said he wouldn't commit to honor the study.
"Even after council asked for the study, the town manager told me he wouldn't commit to honor the study after it was done," the engineer said yesterday.
Daniel said it's not the responsibility of the town manager to set or change the speed limits.
"That's not the town manager's responsibility!
"That's the council's responsibility," he said. "The manager doesn't set the limits, that's the council's job."
The Richmond engineer said that the issue of a residence district didn't come up until after he began investigating.
"Initially I asked him for the basis of the speed limit," he said.
"He sent back all this information saying the town had based its decision on a motion and a petition.
"After that, scrambling for some way to justify the speed limit, he claimed it was a residence district," Bahen said.
Bahen said the suit filed was simply a way to challenge that claim.
Bahen also alleges the proceeds from the speeding tickets are being used in the South Boston town treasury instead of where the Virginia Constitution mandates they should go.
"The underlying problem is the town is defrauding the Literary Fund," Bahen said.
"The proceeds from fines are being deposited to the South Boston treasury rather than the state Literary Fund.
"The Virginia Constitution is perfectly clear: 'The proceeds from all fines collected for offenses committed against the Commonwealth must be credited to the Literary Fund," Bahen said, citing Article 8 Section 8 of the Virginia Constitution.
"In order to circumvent the Constitution of Virginia and defraud the Literary Fund of the fines, South Boston passed 102-3," Bahen said.
Section 102-3 is the section in the South Boston Town Code that adopts state law into the town.
"Whenever victims get a speeding ticket, they are charged with a violation against the town rather than against the commonwealth," he said.
He said that in order to lawfully deposit the fines to the local treasury, the locality would need to demonstrate that speeding on North Main Street is not an offense against the Commonwealth.
"I don't see how the police department in that town can ever have any credibility until the proceeds from the fines are posted to the Literary Fund in accordance with Article 8 Section 8 of the Constitution of Virginia," Bahen concluded.

The staccato voice of auctioneer Carlton Garrett provided a familiar tempo as the New Brick Planters Warehouse opened its 2002 auction season yesterday.
Both the average price and the total pounds of tobacco declined compared to first day sale last year, something that warehouse operators say came as little surprise.
Tobacco averaged $183.80 per hundred on a total volume of 191,057 lbs. In 2001, the average was $187.74 when 552,882 lbs. were sold.
"It's about what I expected," said D.T. Neal, warehouse operator. He blamed the decline in price on more nondescript and lower leaf offerings.
The highest price paid yesterday in South Boston's only warehouse was $1.94 lb. compared to $2.02 lb. on opening day last year.
Stabilization took in 49,012 lbs. or 25.6 percent of yesterday's gross volume.
For many on hand, opening day was bittersweet.
"It's not like it used to be," said Larry Blanks with the Halifax County ASCS office. "Opening day used to be a big deal."
Neal agreed.
"We used to have ceremonies with speakers and live music," he said. "It was a huge event."
"I believe those days are gone," Neal added wistfully.
"It's sad," said Blanks.
But warehouse co-owner Charlie Payne was more upbeat.
"Everybody in town should be here this morning to smell this tobacco," he said with a smile. "You don't get to smell this much anymore."
The traditional method of marketing tobacco changed dramatically during the 2001 flue-cured tobacco marketing season.
Nearly 80 percent of all tobacco was sold via direct contract with the manufacturer.
The Flue-Cured Tobacco Stabilization Cooperation is operating 14 marketing centers this year.
Of the 10,393,038 pounds of tobacco grown in Halifax County this year, only 20 percent is expected to be sold at auction.
The next auction at Planters Warehouse is set for August 20. Only nine total sale days are scheduled for the warehouse this season.

The International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers have asked for a meeting with Dominion Virginia Power.
Representatives from the union have contacted the Federal Mediator who has been involved in their negotiations with Dominion Virginia Power and asked that he arrange a meeting with the company to resume negotiations.
Dan Genest, a spokesman for Dominion Virginia Power, said he is pleased that the union has contacted the mediator.
"I think it's a good sign that the union has taken that first step and asked the mediator to arrange a meeting," he said.
"Hopefully something can get set up soon," Genest added.
The company spokesman said the company is always to talk to the union.
"We want to get this thing resolved," he said.
The union has been involved in contract negotiations with the company since January.
They are trying to agree on a contract to succeed a three-year contract that was ratified in 1995 and extended twice, each time for two years.
On May 17, the company made what it called its "last, best and final offer."
Union members rejected the package by a 9 to 1 vote the last week in June.
Following the rejection, which allowed the union to call a strike with 72 hours notice, the parties resumed negotiations and were joined by a federal mediator.
"The talks failed to produce an agreement and Local 50 members walked off the job on Friday, August 2, at noon," said Brad Stevens, union spokesman.
Stevens gave a synopsis of the final days of negotiations.
"The company made a settlement offer to the union on Friday, July 26," he said. "We counterproposed on Tuesday, July 30, with what the company's chief negotiator called an ...'uninvited counterproposal.'"
"The following day the company broke off talks saying 'we're finished, we're done, that's all there is,'" Stevens added.
"These are not words that invite further negotiations," the union spokesman said.
"I don't know what happened in the negotiation room," Genest said. "So I can't comment on that."
The union spokesman said Dominion officials are saying one thing in public and another in private.
"Company spokesmen have been quoted in the media as saying they want to continue to negotiate," he said. "They have not said that to us."
Genest said the company is working through the mediator at this point.
"The mediator is the one who does that," he said.
But Stevens said the union still wants to reach an agreement.
"Because we are still intent on reaching a fair and equitable agreement as soon as possible, we have contacted the federal mediator this afternoon and requested that he arrange a meeting with the company as soon as possible," Stevens said Wednesday.
"We want to get this thing settled as soon as possible," he added.
Genest said both sides want to see the contract negotiations resolved.
"We respect and value the union workers," he said. "We are getting the work done right now, but we'd much rather see them doing the work."
"I think both sides want the same thing, we just need to find the middle ground," Genest said.
Jack Wells, business manager and negotiator for IBEW Local 50, said the vote comes after the company's attempt to reduce retirement and pension funds, as well as medical benefits.
"Under the new contract, there has been a dramatic change in the retirement formula and medical benefits," Wells said.
Another change the workers are protesting is the change in the medical benefits package.
"Primarily the prescription card," Wells said.
"Under the proposed contract, the out-of-pocket expenses would be $300 for the employee and $600 for families," he noted.
Local 50 represents approximately 3,700 workers in Virginia, West Virginia and North Carolina.
Workers range from meter readers, to linemen, mechanics, electricians, operators and workers at nuclear and fossil generating stations.
Dominion is one of the nation's largest producers of energy, with a production capability of more that three trillion BTUs of energy per day.
Dominion also serves 3.9 million franchise natural gas and electric customers in five states.
Last year, the company's operating revenue was $10.5 billion, with the CEO and President receiving $1 million and a bonus of $1.25 million.

Clarence Booker Jordan

Clarence Booker Jordan, 81, of Danville, died August 6 at Danville Regional Hospital.
Mr. Jordan was born in Amherst County on April 11, 1921, the son of the late Willis Whitfield Jordan and Mary Mamie Bomar Jordan and was married to Beatrice Waller Jordan. He was a member of Buffalo Baptist Church where he served as a deacon. He was a WWII Army Veteran and retired employee of Dan River, Inc.
In addition to his wife, Mr. Jordan is survived by one son, C.M. 'Mike' Jordan and wife, Mary of Greenville, NC; one daughter, Bonnie J. Daniels of Ringgold; three brothers, Haywood Jordan of Nathalie, Dickie Jordan of Brookneal and Paul Jordan of Lynchburg; one sister, Christine Hendricks of Rustburg; two grandchildren, Preston Daniels and wife, Candy of Blairs and Jason Daniels and wife, Stacy of South Boston; and two great-grandchildren, Kaleb and Kelsy Daniels. He was preceded in death by a son, Ronald Preston Jordan; two brothers, Clayton and Simmie Jordan; three sisters, Eula Daniels, Mabel Pauley and Annie Mae Boaze.
A funeral service for Mr. Jordan will be held at 11 a.m. today, August 9 at Clover Bottom Baptist Church by the Rev. Alfred Rimmer. Burial will follow in the church cemetery.

Collie Alton Powell Sr.

Collie Alton Powell Sr., 71, of Powhatan, died August 6.
Mr. Powell was born in Halifax County, the son of Elgin Powell and Izetta V. Powell and was married to Virgie L. Powell.
Survivors include three sons and two daughters-in-law, Collie Alton Powell Jr. of Chesterfield; Michael and Wanda Powell of Omega, Tim and Christy Powell of Roxboro, NC; seven grandchildren and one great-grandchild; two sisters, Mary Lloyd of Saxe and Ruby Martin of Keysville. He was preceded in death by a daughter, Becky P. Taylor.
Graveside services will be held today, August 9 at 2 p.m. in Powhatan Community Cemetery.

Nelson Doss Jr.

Graveside services for Nelson Doss Jr., 60, of 1128 Lower Liberty Road, Nathalie, will be held Saturday, August 10 at 2 p.m. at Sunflower Baptist Church with the Rev. Robert Tucker officiating.
Mr. Doss was born in Loxley, AL on March 9, 1942, the son of Nelson Doss Sr. and Ora Doss and was married to Rebecca King Doss. He was a member of Sunflower Baptist Church.
Survivors include one son, Michael Anthony Doss of Minersville, PA; two grandchildren, Tavon A. Doss and Brittaney D. Doss; two sisters, Barnedia Martin of Tuscaloosa, AL and Rebecca Galloway of Pensacola, FL; and one brother, Ray Doss of Pensacola.
The family will receive friends at the home of Laverne Williams at 1103 South Avenue, South Boston.

George Greely Wilkins

George Greely Wilkins, 91, of 3071 Philpott Road, South Boston, died August 7 at Halifax Regional Hospital.
Mr. Wilkins was born in Halifax County on April 29, 1911, the son of George Washington Wilkins and Addie W. Wilkins and was married to Mary Anna Crawley Wilkins. He was a member of White Oak Fork Baptist Church, was a WWII Army Veteran, and was a retired longshoreman.
Survivors include his wife; one grandson, Billy Smith of New York; one great-grandchild; three sisters, Emma Johnson, Mable Richardson and Hazel Gillis, all of Virgilina. He was preceded in death by two children, Quanita Smith and George G. Wilkins III.
Funeral services for Mr. Wilkins will be held August 12 at 1 p.m. at White Oak Fork Baptist Church with the Rev. Glenn Faulkner officiating. Burial will follow in the church cemetery.
The family will receive friends at the home.