(Rockingham County, N.C.) – A Rockingham County prosecutor says she will seek the death penalty in a 2016 crime spree that left two people dead and a woman hospitalized.

Assistant District Attorney Stephanie Reese says she intends to pursue a capital murder conviction for 38-year-old Rontae Devore Hayes, who faces 18 felony charges in Rockingham County – including two counts of murder, two counts of attempted first-degree murder, and two counts of first-degree kidnapping, burglary and arson.

According to police, Hayes began a 12-hour crime spree on the night of Saturday, June 11, 2016, shooting a man in the leg at a backyard barbecue in Reidsville. He allegedly stole a car and drove to a home seven miles away, where 49-year-old Kavin Allen Galloway was found with a gunshot wound. The stolen car had been set ablaze.

Early the following morning, firefighters found the bodies of Mike Land and Gilbert Breeze dead inside a burning house on Grooms Road. Another woman at the home had been raped and was taken to the hospital and treated for head wounds.

50 local and state police officers conducted a massive search and Hayes, who was captured on the morning of June 12, 2016.

Investigators say the one-man crime spree occurred just four days after a first-degree murder charge against Hayes had been dropped.