‘Suspicious activity’ in yard at 3:15 am was man hiding a body, NC police say

A murder suspect was in the process of concealing a body when someone called 911 to report “suspicious activity” in the neighbor’s yard, according investigators in North Carolina.

That call came at 3:15 a.m. on Saturday, and Greensboro police say they arrived to find 35-year-old Djibril Sow covered in a suspicious amount of blood, according to an affidavit. Blood was also found in the yard, and on the door of a nearby car, the affidavit says.

“Officers responded to the 4600 block of Glencraig Avenue ... after someone reported suspicious activity in the neighborhood. Officers encountered Sow in the backyard of a home where someone had been seen carrying things from the rear of the house to a car parked on the street,” police said in a May 3 news release.

“Officers conducted a safety sweep of the residence and located the body of a woman later identified as Laquasia Shamecca Fields. She was 33. ... Detectives determined that Sow and Fields knew each other.”

An investigation resulted in Sow being charged with first-degree murder and concealment of a death, police said.

Details of a motive and the cause of Fields’ death have not been released.

“Detectives also want to acknowledge and thank the community for alerting police to information that led to the quick apprehension of the suspect in this case,” Greensboro police said. “No additional suspects are being sought at this time.”

Greensboro is about a 90-mile drive northeast from uptown Charlotte.