05/05/15  Camden man has been charged with capital murder

 

A 25 year old Camden man has been charged with capital murder, arson and residential burglary in an incident that occurred in September of last year. According to a report filed in Circuit Court in Camden, Eric Darnell Thrower was charged after a fire in an apartment in the Lincoln Center in Camden. When Camden police responded to a report of a fire, Erika Batton was discovered lying on the floor bleeding profusely from head wounds.  She was air lifted to a Little Rock hospital where she later died of blunt force trauma andstab wounds.