GASTONIA, N.C.—A North Carolina man accused of taking pictures and wounding a 6-year-old lady and her dad and mom after kids went to retrieve a basketball that had rolled into his yard was arrested in Florida Thursday afternoon, authorities stated.
Robert Louis Singletary, 24, was arrested within the Tampa space by Hillsborough County deputies, based on on-line jail information. He was being held with out bail on a fugitive warrant. He’s scheduled to look in court docket Friday.
Gaston County Police Chief Stephen Zill stated at a information convention Wednesday that his division and the U.S. Marshals Service’s Regional Fugitive Job Drive had been conducting a broad seek for Singletary, who fled after the Tuesday evening shootings close to Gastonia, a metropolis of roughly 80,000 folks west of Charlotte.
Singletary had been out on bond in a December assault wherein authorities say he assaulted a girl with a hammer. He was needed in Tuesday’s shootings on 4 counts of tried first-degree homicide, two counts of assault with a lethal weapon with the intent to kill inflicting severe harm, and one depend of being a felon in possession of a firearm.
Zill declined to say what sparked the assault, explaining that the investigation was ongoing.
Nonetheless, neighbor Jonathan Robertson stated the assault occurred after some neighborhood kids went to retrieve a basketball that had rolled into Singletary’s yard. He stated Singletary, who had yelled on the kids on a number of events since transferring to the neighborhood, went inside his house, got here again out with a gun and commenced taking pictures as dad and mom frantically tried to get their children to security.
“As quickly as I noticed him popping out taking pictures, I used to be hollering at everyone to get down and get inside,” Robertson stated.
A 6-year-old lady, Kinsley White, was grazed by a bullet within the left cheek and was handled at a hospital and launched, she and her household stated. Her father, Jamie White, who had run to her assist, was shot within the again. He remained hospitalized Thursday with severe wounds, together with liver harm, based on Kinsley’s grandfather and neighbor, Carl Hilderbrand. The lady’s mom, Ashley Hilderbrand, was grazed within the elbow. Authorities say Singletary additionally shot at one other man however missed.
“It was very scary,” Ashley Hilderbrand stated Wednesday. “My daughter really obtained to come back house final evening. She simply had a bullet fragment in her cheek.”