LITTLE ROCK — Bail was set at $2 million this morning for a man who investigators say admitted killing a 25-year-old Little Rock woman because he believed he had contracted AIDS from her.
Kevin Brown, 25, did not speak during a brief appearance before Judge Wayne Gruber in Pulaski County District Court.
Brown is charged with killing Roshunda Bates, whose body was found Thursday buried in a fresh grave in a field at 2024 E. Dixon Road. Brown lives in a mobile home on the property, which is near Mills High School.
Bates' mother, Yolanda Bates, asked for a high bond during an emotional address to Gruber.
"These are her kids," she said, holding up framed portraits of Roshunda Bates' 4-year-old daughter Nila and 2-year-old son Nicholas. "And they don't have their mother no more because he took her."
Yolanda Bates then turned and spoke directly to the man charged with killing her daughter.
"Why would you do a person like that?" she said through tears. "Why?"
Brown was arrested Tuesday on drug and weapons charges and later told investigators he killed Roshunda Bates after becoming angry at her "for giving him the AIDS virus," according to a report.
He did not answer a reporter's questions as deputies led him from the courtroom and to a van for the short ride back to the Pulaski County Regional Detention Facility.
Yolanda Bates had reported her daughter missing Monday.
In addition to the $2 million bail on the murder charge, Brown is being held in lieu of $75,000 bail on the drug and weapons charges.