James Sesson, 19, of Fox Court Run, Roanoke Rapids, was scheduled to be jailed on $1 million bond late this evening.
Roanoke Rapids detectives were interviewing him this evening and he faces charges of carrying a concealed weapon, attempted first degree murder and discharging a firearm into occupied property.
Sesson surrendered to authorities in Littleton after an anonymous tip late this afternoon placed him at a house on Highway 4, Captain Andy Jackson of the city police department said.
Shortly before 4:30 this afternoon deputies and detectives, after arriving at the house, saw someone matching Sesson’s description. The person closed an open door and after several attempts to coax him through loudspeakers, a search warrant was obtained.
Jackson said Sesson surrendered 10 minutes after shutting the door. It is not clear whose house he was at.
Jackson said Roanoke Rapids was appreciative of the assistance the sheriff’s office gave throughout the investigation of the shooting, in which Sesson allegedly fired six shots into a vehicle parked at Bobby Supermarket shortly before 1 a.m. “I think when we work together the results are positive.”
Sesson was led to the police department by Deputy Jason Keeter. He declined comment when rrspin.com asked him if he had anything to say.
The victim in the case, an 18-year-old man who police have declined to identify and has been released from the hospital, was sitting behind the wheel of a car in the parking lot when the shots were fired. Two other people were in the car. They were not injured.
Jackson said it is not known whether the man shot was the target and it is not clear why the shots were fired from what is believed to be a 9mm handgun.
Sesson has an outstanding warrant from the Halifax County Sheriff’s Office for assault on a female and false imprisonment.
He was most recently charged by the sheriff’s office following a property theft investigation off Carolina Rest Home Road.
With assistance from the sheriff’s office Monday, investigators located the getaway car used following the shooting. It was found in an undisclosed location in the county.
Jackson said earlier this week video footage shows Sesson walking with his hands in the air toward the vehicle and then firing. “There’s some kind of beef there, we just don’t know what it is right now,” he said.
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