FAIRMONT — Fairmont police have charged one person in a shooting on Saturday that led to a high-speed chase, and continue to seek another man wanted in the crime.
Julius Jamall Smith, 34, turned himself in at the Robeson County Sheriff’s Office on Tuesday night, according to Fairmont police Capt. Jon Edwards.
Smith is charged with assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill inflicting serious injury; discharging a weapon in the city limits; injury to real property; and injury to personal property. Smith was jailed under a $100,000 bond.
Fairmont police are looking for 24-year-old Issiach Jermal McLellan, who faces same charges. McLellan is considered armed and dangerous.
The shooting prompted a high-speed chase from Fairmont to Southeastern Regional Medical Center, where law enforcement found Ushayontell Johnson, 19, in a vehicle with a gunshot wound in his stomach. Edwards said Johnson is expected to recover.
Edwards said law enforcement have not identified a motive for the shooting, but said Smith and McLellan “are familiar” with Johnson.
The 12-mile chase began shortly after 2 p.m. Saturday when police responding to a report of shots being fired saw a 2008 Nissan Altima with two occupants speeding away from a car wash on North Walnut Street, according to Edwards.
“The driver of the car refused to stop to blue lights and led officers on a chase of excessive speed to Lumberton,” Edwards said. “The officers at that time were not sure if those in the car had been involved with the shots that had been reported fired.”
Lumberton police and Robeson County sheriff’s deputies assisted in the chase.
Edwards said Johnson had been shot in the torso with a handgun. Another occupant in the vehicle, Cornelius Robinson, 25, of Lumberton, was found with injuries on his hands that Edwards said were likely the result of a scuffle with someone in Fairmont.
According to Edwards, Robinson was treated and released from the hospital.
Both Smith and McLellan are from Fairmont, and McLellan is known to frequent the Lumberton area.
Anyone with information on McLellan’s whereabouts should call Fairmont police Detective Scott Jacobs at 910-628-9766 or call 911.
