Man Charged with Capital Murder in Lufkin

LUFKIN — A Lufkin man has been arrested in Nacogdoches County on a capital murder warrant out of Angelina County. Rakeem Levon Rhodes,20, was arrested in an apartment on Oak Hill Drive Monday morning. He was taken into custody after Nacogdoches County sheriff’s deputies and U.S. Marshals surrounded an apartment. He has been transferred to Lufkin and booked into the Angelina County Jail. Rhodes was arrested in connection with the June 12th death of Albert Hodge. He was found with multiple gunshot wounds in a house in the 700 block of Weaver Avenue. He later died at a Lufkin hospital. A witness told investigators two young black men had shot Hodge and then ran from the scene