By By GREG KATSKI
Community Editor
A Washington man is wanted in connection with the shootings of two people at the intersection of West Seventh and North Respess streets Tuesday afternoon.
The Washington Police Department has obtained warrants charging Omar Deshan Blount, 28, of East Seventh Street, with attempted first-degree murder and assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill inflicting serious injury in the shootings of William Henry Bailey III, 23, of Gladden Street, and George Calvin Harvey, 38, of Charlie Smith Court in Grimesland.
He has been entered into the National Crime Information Center as a wanted man, according to Lt. William Chrismon, spokesman for the department.
At 1:23 p.m. Tuesday, Washington officers responded to the Beaufort County Medical Center after receiving a report that a person suffering a gunshot wound was being treated there. Within minutes, police also responded to the Holiday Inn Express on Carolina Avenue after receiving a report about another gunshot victim. According to radio traffic heard over a scanner, the second gunshot victim, after being shot in the leg rode his bicycle to the hotel, where his girlfriend was working at the time.
Both victims were treated for nonlife-threatening injuries to their legs, according to Chrismon.
Blount was scheduled to appear in Pitt County Superior Court today on several felony charges, including possession with intent to sell and deliver cocaine, assault with a deadly weapon on a government official and maintaining a vehicle/dwelling/place with a controlled substance.
He was also set for an appearance in Beaufort County Superior Court in late December on charges including possession with intent to sell and deliver cocaine within 300 feet of a park and felony possession with intent to sell and deliver cocaine.
Blount, a repeat offender, was last incarcerated in 2004 for possession of a Schedule IV substance.
“We are continuing the investigation into this incident and any connection it may have to other unlawful activity in the area” said Lt. William Chrismon in a news release issued Wednesday.
The shooting was the city’s third documented shooting in eight days. The suspects in two shootings Oct. 27 remain at-large.
Bradley Coward, 19, of Havens Street, is wanted on two counts of felony assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill and inflicting serious injury in connection with the shooting of Shawn Michael Foskey at the intersection of Havens and East Fourth streets about 6 p.m. that day. Foskey, 25, a resident of Daniels Court, suffered a gunshot wound to his back and possibly was struck by a vehicle during the incident.
A positive identification has not been made of the suspect in the carjacking and shooting around 7 p.m. that evening that put parts of Highland Drive, Ridgewood Manor and Washington High School under lockdown until 10 a.m. the next day.
The suspect is described as a 6-foot-tall, 200-pound black man with dreadlocks and wearing a gray, hooded sweatshirt and white baseball cap.
Anyone with information about the location of any of these suspects should contact the Washington Police Department at 946-1444 or Beaufort County Crime Stoppers at 974-9400.