Man, 7-year-old girl shot after Fayetteville wreck

Fayetteville, N.C. — A driver shot a man and his 7-year-old daughter after a wreck on Bragg Boulevard in Fayetteville Tuesday night, police said.

Police spokesman Gavin McRoberts said that Eric Samuel Jones Jr. rear-ended a white sedan, occupied by Darrick Kelly and his 7- and 4-year-old daughter, around 9:30 p.m. on Bragg Boulevard, near William Clark Road.

Jones, 21, of 2515 Cattail Circle, ran to the sedan, pulled out a .22-caliber revolver and fired, striking Kelly three times and the 7-year-old girl four times, McRoberts said. The 4-year-old girl was unharmed.

Kelly and his daughters ran into a nearby Popeye's Chicken and Biscuits restaurant for help, police said. McRoberts said they were taken to Cape Fear Valley Hospital, and their injuries were non-life-threatening.

Witnesses said that Jones tried to hijack a car in the restaurant parking lot, but police said they haven't been able to verify that information. Officers arrested Jones as he was fleeing from the scene on foot.

Jones was charged with two counts of assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill inflicting serious injury. He was placed in the Cumberland County jail under a $100,000 secured bond.

Additional charges are pending, police said.

McRoberts said that Jones was convicted in 2007 of two counts each of felony breaking and entering and larceny. He served about four months in jail.

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randall0123a
March 24, 2011 11:58 a.m.

You can make all the laws you want. Who will the laws affect? – only the LAW ABIDING citizens! Get with it people. The problem is how the laws are ENFORCED! Crimes occur because criminals are not afraid of the consequences. Oh, a little jail time where they are provided meals, a bed, cable TV, and who knows what other pleasantries. Criminals are robbing, raping, and killing others, and after a run through the joke of a judicial system, they often get less than life in prison. Even if they get the death penalty, they can have a “pleasant and peaceful” death via injection. Make criminals AFRAID of the consequences, and this will all end, or at least be GREATLY reduced. An eye for an eye is the key. If a criminal rapes someone, then hack off their offending organ. Continued…

randall0123a
March 24, 2011 11:57 a.m.

Criminals will ALWAYS be able to procure weapons if they want. Do you think a criminal cares about breaking a firearm law? Wise up anti-gun activists! If firearms were ever banned, the only thing this would do is hinder law abiding citizens from being able to protect themselves from those that ignore laws and social order. The BEST way to stop crime is to give EVERYONE a gun. Criminals thrive now because the odds are that their intended victims won’t have a gun for protection. If these criminals knew an intended victim, and all those that might witness their crime, will have a gun to protect themselves, they will SURELY think twice. And if they didn’t and wanted to commit a felony or go on a killing spree, rather than multiple victims or innocent fatalities, the law abiding citizens that are armed would remove the criminal from the gene pool and future crimes with a few well placed rounds. Criminals would be forced to get a job and EARN their way through society like the rest of us

randall0123a
March 24, 2011 11:14 a.m.

People use guns to shoot people. They say it isn't the guns, but if handguns were not on the market people wouldn't get shot with handguns. No assault rifles either. Hunting rifles only would dramatically reduce gun violence. Kinda hard to conceal a rifle. At least you'd see them coming and have time to respond. Also, kill that punk.

DickHefner
March 24, 2011 10:32 a.m.

>> Jones was convicted in 2007 of two >> counts each of felony breaking and entering and larceny. So Where Are The Weapons Charges?

He Is A Convicted Felon.