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Updated: 4/17/2012 1:45 pm Published: 4/16/2012 8:59 am
LITTLE ROCK, AR - Monday night, Little Rock police arrested two brothers and charged them with murdering a west Little Rock restaurant employee.

The brothers, along with two other people, now all face murder charges in a suspected plot to rob the restaurant where they all worked.

Brothers Kiywuan Perry, 23, and Zeckeya Perry, 19, along with Quantez Dobbins, 19, and Kenya Smith, 19, sit in the Pulaski County jail with no bond. They are charged with murdering Jesus Herrera late Sunday night at El Chico restaurant where all five worked.

Little Rock police think it was a plot by four employees to rob the restaurant.

The LRPD tracked down the Perry brothers, who live in North Little Rock, Monday and charged them with murdering their co-worker, Herrera.

The younger brother told reporters Monday night that he did not know why he was going to jail. Police tell FOX16 that four suspects went into El Chico Sunday around 9:00 p.m. and ordered employees to the back. That's when police say witnesses heard five gunshots. When police got there, they found Herrera shot and killed.

Police say the masked suspects also got away with cash from El Chico.

"I've been told, and what we've gathered from the witnesses, no one tried to intervene or struggle with the robbers," says Little Rock Police Sgt. Cassandra Davis.

While police think the four plotted to rob the restaurant, they aren't sure if they intended to kill anyone.

Erica Bilello says she's worked at El Chico on and off for eight years and knew Herrera.

"He's not confrontational, you know? He's just a happy person. I don't understand why, why him?" she said.

Now, Herrera is dead and four of his co-workers will have to answer to a judge.

"I want everybody to go down for this. It's not right. It doesn't, it's not fair," says Bilello.

At 5 p.m., FOX16 showed you video of two people questioned in this crime. Police now tell FOX16 that they were released and had nothing to do with the murder.

Little Rock police say customers inside El Chico during the murder did not get hurt and weren't robbed.

Little Rock Police say this is the 13th homicide this year.

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black34 - 4/17/2012 9:16 PM
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WHAT DO RACE HAVE TO DO WITH THIS!!! OMG WHAT DO TRAYVON MARTIN HAS TO DO WITH THIS' A MAN WAS KILL IN A ROBBERY,AND YES THAT'S SAD.BUT BACK TO YOU RACIST PEOPLE BLACK THIS BLACK THAT YOU WHITE FOLKS STEAL,RAPE,AND KILL TOO. THEY JUST DON'T PUT YOU'LL FACE ON THE NEWS AND IN THE PAPER AND DON'T SEND YOU ALL TO PRISON.YOU ALL WERE AND IS THE FIRST GANG AND DID THE FIRST KILLING CHECK YOURSELF U ALL ARE THE DEVIL!! LET SEE IF A BLACK PERSON KILL THEY GET LIFE,WHEN YOU DEVIL'S DO IT YOU ALL GET A YEAR IN THE COUNTY PLEASE YOU WHITE PEOPLE ARE THE ANIMALS THAT'S WHY WE IN HELL NOW CAUSE YOU WHITE PEOPLE THINK YOU RULE THE WORLD!!!!

justfact86 - 4/17/2012 4:04 PM
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It have nothing to do with Race it have everything to do with lazy people getting easy money. They also took a life which was an innocent. People that steal and murder should go to a place where they can be useless cause that is all they are to society. What good would they bring if they are free besides more crime.

rudder - 4/17/2012 1:39 PM
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The perp's used the fact of the Trayvon shooting as a basis for killing a Hispanic. I.E., they committed a HATE CRIME pure and simple. The robbery was an afterthought.

ladyofthehill - 4/17/2012 12:38 PM
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I don't hear the Indian yelling he was pushed off his land by whites years ago. Blacks are in a league of their own and don't respect anyone.

dilligaf - 4/17/2012 12:16 PM
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thaone, I agree with one thing you said. If you go into a black community and start killing blacks, youre going to be called a racist. You are so true. But, if a black or a group of blacks go into a white community and start killing people, they are labeled as a murder only. There is no hate crime attached to it. People want to talk about the white race stereotyping blacks, the role is definitely reversed. The black race is convinced, through youre pal Sharpton and the likes, that the white man is out to abolish them. The black race is only doing it to themselves by keeping racism alive. You mention Bentonville being racist, myself as a white person have been treated the same in Lake Village, Eudora, Monticello, Pine Bluff, El Dorado and numerous other towns. Did I claim racism? Hell no, I moved on and let it go in one ear and out the other. Its all ignorance bred by ignorant people.

thaone - 4/17/2012 11:18 AM
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people have treated blacks bad for so long they scared of them all and u have the right to b

thaone - 4/17/2012 11:16 AM
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recently i went to bentonville for a basketball tourney..... now u wanta talk racist.... those and i do mean those people r truly racist... they try and talk down on u... tell u to go back were u come from.... but im hood with a concealed carry.... so i firmly told them to do wht they feel.... kkk or nt u goin respect that tool

thaone - 4/17/2012 11:12 AM
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this was a robbey plain and simple people always try to compare 1 crime to another... any time the police tell u not to follow someone thts wht u should do and u would nt b labeled a racist and the naacp al or the rest of the gang would nt b involved... in tulsa u go to a black community and start killing people and then say ur nt a racist thats a lie... the dummy plotted to rob a restuarant... that didnt have anything to do with race

dilligaf - 4/17/2012 10:34 AM
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joyful, racism is alive and kicking due in part to the NAACP and people like Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson. Sharpton and Jackson speak about unity and all races coming together, but they do nothing to actually promote it. If this was a case of one black being murdered by four whites, hispanics, etc., they would do the same thing they did in Florida with the Zimmerman ordeal. They would blow it completely out of proportion and lead the public and media into believing that it was racially motivated. There is not a prosecutor anywhere that would try this as a hate crime because of the national ramifications they would endure. Racism will never die until people like Sharpton, Jackson and the NAACP realize how much damage they are actually causing. THEY are keeping the black race down, not any other race.

joyful1 - 4/17/2012 9:59 AM
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Racisim is ignorance and has no color, so why must we add race, just say those boys because there is not just one race doing these killings that are happening all over Arkansas is what I am saying. Yes those 4 boys were wrong for taking the life of anyone no matter his race. Just saying Blacks is ingorant because you are putting everyone in a box. Farrakhan speaks for himself and not a whole race of people. Jesus's family will get justice because those boys are arrested and will be punished. I commend our officers because the majority of the people that commit the crimes are being found and arrested, not all but most of them are.
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