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Port Royal police arrest 2 suspects after shots fired at vehicle on Ribaut Road

Updated: 22-10-2024, 03.28 PM

Port Royal police have arrested two people after gunfire rang out outside a Ribaut Road restaurant Thursday morning, striking a nearby car stopped at a traffic signal.

Charles Clayton Fullington, 19, was charged Friday with attempted murder, discharging a firearm into an occupied vehicle, aggravated breach of peace, drug possession and a felony firearms offense, court records show. He remained in custody at the Beaufort County Detention Center as of Monday.

Theodore Lamont Frazier, 22, was arrested Friday by Jasper County deputies on an outstanding warrant for second-degree harassment, according to sheriff’s office spokesperson Christian Felt. Frazier is considered a “person of interest” in the Ribaut Road shooting but had not been charged in connection with the incident as of Monday, according to Capt. John Griffith of the Port Royal Police Department.

Traffic moves along Ribaut Road at Royal Palms Road on Friday, April 7, 2023 in the Town of Port Royal. Police arrested two men after a vehicle on Ribaut Road was shot at from a nearby parking lot on Thursday, October 17, 2024.Traffic moves along Ribaut Road at Royal Palms Road on Friday, April 7, 2023 in the Town of Port Royal. Police arrested two men after a vehicle on Ribaut Road was shot at from a nearby parking lot on Thursday, October 17, 2024.

Traffic moves along Ribaut Road at Royal Palms Road on Friday, April 7, 2023 in the Town of Port Royal. Police arrested two men after a vehicle on Ribaut Road was shot at from a nearby parking lot on Thursday, October 17, 2024.

Officers responded to a report of shots fired at 11:52 a.m. Thursday, finding several spent shell casings in the parking lot of Agave Mexican Grill. A vehicle was hit by the gunfire while stopped at a red light at Ribaut Road’s intersection with Lady’s Island Drive, according to a press release from the Port Royal Police Department. No injuries were reported.

Fullington and Frazier were detained and arrested “immediately after the shooting,” according to a press release from Port Royal police. Frazier was released on bond following his arrest, Felt said.

The shooting remained under investigation as of Monday.

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