A Stoney Creek man faces multiple charges after police say he shot a gun at an occupied vehicle.
Early Tuesday morning officers of the Carter County Sheriff’s Office were dispatched to shots fired in the Stoney Creek community. Dispatchers at 911 told officers the female caller said she would meet officers at the Volunteer Mart located on Highway 91.
“I made contact with her there and she was very upset and had grass stains all over her feet and no shoes,” CCSO Deputy Joshua Hopkins said.
The woman told officers a man, whom she identified as James Wilson, had damaged the vehicle she was driving and fired several shots at her as she tried to leave.
“The vehicle (the woman) was in was a 2016 Honda CRV and she stated it was a rental car,” Hopkins said. “The vehicle had damage to the passenger side door, the windshield was cracked in several places, the dash knobs had been broken off inside, and there was a bullet hole in the driver’s side lower rear tail light area. The hole went all the way through to the inside and there was a .45 caliber bullet laying in the back of the CRV.”
The woman told officers Wilson damaged the inside of the vehicle by kicking as she drove him home.
“(She) stated when they arrived at his home that Mr. Wilson went in his home and got a 1911 .45 caliber handgun,” Hopkins said. “(She stated) as she was pulling up the road from the driveway James Wilson fired three or four rounds at her with the pistol.”
Hopkins and other deputies went to Wilson’s home on Midway Drive in an attempt to locate him but after searching his home and the surrounding area officers were not able to find him. Hopkins said he then obtained warrants for Wilson’s arrest charging him with aggravated assault, reckless endangerment and vandalism.
Later in the morning on Tuesday, CCSO Lt. Derrick Hamm located Wilson and took him into custody on the warrants secured by Hopkins. Hamm also served Wilson with a criminal summons charging him with assault which had previously been taken out by the woman who reported the incident on Tuesday.
Wilson appeared in Carter County General Sessions Court on Tuesday where he was arraigned on the charges against him. Judge Keith Bowers Jr. appointed local attorney Dwayne Fortner to represent Wilson and scheduled him to return to court on Sept. 13. Bowers also ordered Wilson to have no contact with the victim in the case.