FAYETTEVILLE -- A young man was arrested Wednesday morning after police say an armed robbery ended with a shooting.
Seth Sholmire, 20, of 4394 W. Apache Trail, was arrested in connection with aggravated robbery and battery. Sholmire was in the Washington County Detention Center with no bond set.
Officers were called at 12:51 a.m. to the North Creekside Apartments at 1764 N. Leverett Ave. for a robbery, according to a police report. The caller said at least one person was shot and the suspects had fled. Witnesses gave police descriptions of two men.
A man at a local hospital told detectives a man named Seth shot him. When officers showed the man a picture of Seth Sholmire he said he remembered Sholmire being at the scene when he was shot. Police did not identify the man who was shot.
Officers were still at the scene of the robbery when they stopped Sholmire as he was walking toward Apt. A2. Sholmire gave "a very vague reason" for being outside and told the officers he was trying to get into Apt. A2, according to the report. Sholmire had a gun holster with him at the time.
Sholmire was detained for loitering and taken to the police department.
Jason Howell, the occupant of Apt. A2, told police he was with Sholmire when the shooting happened.
Sholmire was angry because the man who was shot did not have enough marijuana to sell him, Howell said. Sholmire fired one shot into the air and demanded the man empty his pockets before shooting him.
The man was shot twice, according to the report.
Howell said he and Sholmire ran to Apt. A2 and hid the revolver in a closet. Two firearms were taken from the apartment, including a Smith and Wesson .357 handgun Howell told police was used in the shooting.
NW News on 01/09/2020