LUMBERTON, NC (WBTW) – The Lumberton Police Department made an arrest in a shooting from last week after executing a search warrant with multiple law enforcement agencies.
Captain Terry Parking with the department says officers partnered with an investigator for the Robeson County District Attorney’s office and the State Bureau of Investigation to execute a search warrant Wednesday at a home in the 300 block of Kings Cross Road.
Officers arrested 19-year-old Jacob Hill, of Lumberton, for the shooting on Walnut Street Friday that sent one victim to the hospital with life-threatening injuries.
Lumberton police responded to Walnut Street Friday afternoon and found a man in a car with a gunshot wound. Capt. Parker says officers received multiple calls about shots fired in the area of 21st and Walnut Street around 1 p.m.
When police arrived, they found the injured 24-year-old sitting inside a red Honda. Officers took care of the victim until emergency crews took over care and transported him to Southeastern Regional Medical Center.
Hill is charged with assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill inflicting serious injury, shooting into an occupied vehicle, and two counts of shooting into occupied property. His bond is $2 million, confirms Capt. Parker. Hill is being held at the Robeson County Detention Center.