Two accused in Fosque murder case indicted by multijurisdictional Grand Jury

By Linda Cicoira

Two people being held in connection with the December 2024 Accomack County murder of 30-year-old Warren Thomas Fosque III, of Horntown, were indicted on March 28 by an Eastern Shore Multijurisdictional Grand Jury that convened in Northampton County.

Details of the indictments were sealed until the suspects could be arrested for the protection of the officers who later brought in 34-year-old Ceonta Jamar Kellam, of James Allen Drive in Machipongo, and 26-year-old Destiny Monique Taylor, of Daryl Lane in New Church.

Evidence included information presented to the jurors from witnesses summoned before the panel, court records stated.

The Accomack County Sheriff’s Office was alerted of a vehicle fire on Dec. 15 that spread to nearby brush on Green Hill Road in New Church. Deputies discovered Fosque in a wooded area there. He was unresponsive, suffering from gunshot wounds, and died at the scene.

Kellam was indicted on a count of first-degree murder; maliciously setting a fire, burning or destroying evidence and personal property valued at more than $1,000 with an explosive device; possession of a firearm by a felon; and concealing, altering, dismembering, or destroying physical evidence with the intent to delay or impede an investigation. He was on supervised probation when the murder occurred.

Kellam told authorities that he “didn’t do it,” the court file further stated.

In 2008, when Kellam was 16, he pleaded guilty in Accomack to robbery and was given a 20-year suspended sentence. He paid $773 in restitution. He was also given a 12-month suspended term for possession of a firearm by a minor and a 10-year suspended sentence for gang participation in a criminal act.

In April of 2023, when Kellam was 31, he was sentenced in Accomack Circuit Court to five years for possession of a firearm by a felon with all but the mandatory minimum of two years suspended. He was given another 33 days with all but three days suspended for DWI. Two-thirds of the $1,500 fine was expected to be suspended when Kellam completed a substance abuse course. He was ordered to be on five years of supervised probation.

Twenty-six-year-old Destiny Monique Taylor, of Daryl Lane in New Church, was indicted on counts of aiding or assisting the principal suspect, Kellam, so he could avoid or escape prosecution or punishment; assisting in the arson; and altering, concealing, dismembering or destroying physical evidence of a felony.

Both suspects are inmates at the Accomack Jail.