DOBBINS HEIGHTS — Investigators with the Richmond County Sheriff’s Office have made an arrest in one of three shooting incidents within four days.
Kelais Omarie Worley, 20, of Earle Franklin Drive in Dobbins Heights, is accused of shooting into a vehicle on Earle Franklin Drive Monday while two people were seated inside, according to the sheriff’s office.
Investigators say the male and female victims were both taken to the emergency room at Sandhills Regional Medical Center and later released with minor injuries.
Worley was arrested Wednesday and charged with two counts of assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill inflicting serious injury and one count of shooting into an occupied property, both felonies. He was booked into the Richmond County Jail under a $250,000 secured bond.
Records show he has no other pending charges or previous criminal convictions.
Deputies say an unoccupied vehicle on Frank Davis Street was shot into on Saturday and a home on Earle Franklin Drive was shot into Tuesday morning. The home was occupied, but no one was injured.
Nearby Hamlet had four shootings over the weekend.
Detective Lt. Randy Dover with the Hamlet Police Department told the Daily Journal on Tuesday that the first incident happened around 1:20 a.m. Saturday, when a man was shot seven or eight times. He said investigators believe the shooting happened on Monroe Avenue behind the Food Mart.
The name of the victim — who was flown to an undisclosed hospital for treatment and is expected to make a full recovery — has not been released.
Around 9 a.m. that morning, Dover said multiple shots were fired into a home, with several people inside, in the Buttercup Drive area.
Around noon Tuesday, police charged 28-year-old Adrian Lamar Campbell with attempted first-degree murder and discharging a weapon into an occupied property. He was given a $125,000 secured bond on those charges.
Dover said there were also two vehicles shot at the Circle B convenience store Sunday. The first was shot around 1 a.m. and there were no injuries reported. The second happened around 11:21 a.m. and Dover said a woman was hit by a bullet fragment, but did not go to the hospital for treatment.
Investigators have identified a person of interest and, as of early Tuesday afternoon, were still trying to locate him.
The sheriff’s office and Hamlet Police Department are working together to solve the cases.
All defendants facing criminal charges are presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty in court.
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