NORTH CHARLESTON — Police arrested two people who are accused of shooting one person in the back and another person in the chest during the middle of a day last week on Dorchester Road.
Jeremiah Dwayne Thompson, 19, and Davian Leroy Matthews, 20, are facing two counts of attempted murder, and Thompson faces an additional weapons charge. The North Charleston Police Department arrested both men on July 28.
The charges stem from a shooting that occurred near Dorchester Road and Andrews Street just after noon on July 21. Police officers responding to a call about gunfire found two male victims, who had been shot, lying in the middle of Dorchester Road.
Multiple witnesses told police they saw a vehicle connected to the assailants drive off toward Fellowship Road, which is by the Shoppes East of Ashley, a strip mall on Dorchester Road near the crime scene.
Police reviewed city camera footage and identified the vehicle to be a dark-in-color Toyota Corolla, according to arrest warrant affidavits provided to The Post and Courier on July 30. The video showed the vehicle leaving a nearby Exxon and entering the strip mall parking lot.
The video captured the two victims running from the Fellowship Road area toward the parking lot of the strip mall. One of the men’s mothers was parked in the lot, according to the warrants. The video showed three men jumping out of the Toyota Corolla and shooting at the victims.
Two of the suspects fled on foot while the third drove away from the scene, according to the warrants.
Nine people were detained in the hours following the shooting, police said. Thompson and Matthews are the only two who have been charged.
Thompson was granted a $50,000 bond but remains in jail. Matthews was denied bond, records show.
Neither had been previously booked into the Sheriff Al Cannon Detention Center.
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