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Shooting injures two
Four arrested in Saturday morning incident
Published Monday, June 8, 2009
McCoy
An argument early Saturday morning led to a shooting, sending two Jemison men to area hospitals and landing four others in jail.
Bert Raysean Frazier, 25, and Mystafha Daniel Augustin, 23, both of Jemison, received non-life threatening injuries after being shot around 3 a.m. Saturday at a Dixon Circle residence.
According to Jemison authorities, the shooting happened after an incident involving two juveniles, one 16 and the other 17, and at least one of the two shooting victims. According to a department release, the two juveniles drove to Clanton, picked up two adult males, one of which had a handgun, and then drove back to Dixon Circle where the two victims were standing in the front yard.
Beard
One of the adult males stepped out of the car and fired three shots, striking both victims. The third shot struck the outside of the home.
Frazier was transported to Shelby Baptist, while Augustin was transported to UAB for treatment.
“We had tremendous support from a number of county law enforcement agencies, especially Clanton, and within two hours had the four men in custody,” Jemison Chief of Police Shane Fulmer said.
All four of the suspects were taken into custody by Jemison authorities, with the support of the Clanton Police Department, in the West End community.
Jones
The two adults arrested were Rashee Tremayne McCoy, 19, and Ades Jamel Beard, 20, both of Clanton.
A Monday afternoon hearing ruled the two juveniles in the case would be charged as adults. Jamal Lashad Johnson, 17, and Je’rel Rahem Jones, 16, were both charged as adults and placed in the Chilton County Jail.
All four individuals have been charged with first-degree assault with a deadly weapon and shooting into an occupied dwelling.
Johnson
“This obviously could have been a very different and tragic outcome,” Fulmer said. “We are fortunate that it wasn’t.
“We received a tremendous amount of assistance from outside agencies from responding to the call, working the scene and making the arrest,” he added. “I thank all of the officers involved and express a job well done.”
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Posted by gonefishen (anonymous) on June 8, 2009 at 8:20 p.m. (Suggest removal)
CLAP! CLAP!! CLAP!!!
Excellent follow up !!!
I wonder if Mr. Jones has that hard look today?
Posted by kwsrgraves (anonymous) on June 8, 2009 at 8:53 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Good job guys. Shane and Brian, good job on cooperation with the two departments without a turf battle. Kudos to the judge who wil allow these guys to be tried as adults. Using a firearm is a step into another realm of adulthood. As I firmly believe, and have stated before, "fighting is for people who can't negotiate." Shooting is for people too spineless to fight.
With that said, there is a precipice that these guys are "innocent until PROVEN guilty." Our CONSTITUTION guarantees that right. It guarantees a rights to due process. Well, that process has begun by a decision that they will be tried as adults.
This is a more serious situation than some 6 inch tall plants being grown in a bucket. And the professional officers handleing this incident may well be the ones that confiscated someones dope last week. Either way, GOOD JOB GUYS. You did your job, and you went home safe. No excessive force, no complaints, and your families are proud of you. No shame in that, and you represented yourself and departments respectfully.
Posted by KatherineReece (anonymous) on June 8, 2009 at 11:09 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Unless they've changed the laws since my shooting there are mandatory sentencing guidelines when a gun is involved. I guess these guys didn't get the memo.
Posted by rogerware (anonymous) on June 9, 2009 at 6:30 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Sad that a few seconds of stupid will turn into years of solitude. Seems to me that in the short ride from Clanton to Jemison, none of those thugs considered the consequences of doing something extremely stupid!! It never seems to amaze me that there will always be an element out there that thinks a gun is the answer. Lock em up and tie the key to a rabbit...each one of them deserves to be given the maxium punishment allowed by law.
Posted by magnoliapem (anonymous) on June 9, 2009 at 7:41 a.m. (Suggest removal)
I am proud of the way our law enforcement agencies are working together. Comes from good leadership. Town Chiefs and Sheriff's office are doing so much better in that department. I also want to commend Judge Hardesty for ruling that these boys be tried as adults. Believe it or not, she truly cares about the children of this community and she usually makes rulings that would protect a child from serious repurcussions. I think she made the right call here. By involving themselves in an attempted murder they have in essence put themselves in a grown up's place. So, yeah they deserve to be treated like adults. Too bad they aren't in grown up jail.
Posted by 071959 (anonymous) on June 9, 2009 at 9:06 a.m. (Suggest removal)
IT IS SAD THAT THIS HAD TO COME TO THIS. THE JEMISON POLICE KNOWS THAT THEIR IS DRUG ACTIVITY THAT GOES ON IN THIS AREA EVERYDAY AND IT TAKES SOMEONE GETTING SHOT FOR THEM TO ARREST ANYBODY. I HOPE THEY INVESTIGATE THIS FURTHER AND GET SOME OF THESE SUPPLIERS OFF OF THE STREET BEFORE SOMEONE ENDS UP GETTING KILLED.
Posted by bree (anonymous) on June 9, 2009 at 2:02 p.m. (Suggest removal)
magnoliapen, I believe that they have been transfered from juvenile detention in Shelby to grown up jail.
"A Monday afternoon hearing ruled the two juveniles in the case would be charged as adults. Jamal Lashad Johnson, 17, and Je’rel Rahem Jones, 16, were both charged as adults and placed in the Chilton County Jail".
Its sad that their life is pretty much over at such a young age, because of a stupid decision, over an argument.
Posted by eagle1 (anonymous) on June 9, 2009 at 3:33 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Well, I think there's something in the water from all the years of spraying peaches.
Posted by travlr423 (anonymous) on June 9, 2009 at 3:35 p.m. (Suggest removal)
you all act like these kids are facing capital punishment. how long do you really think they can be incarcerated for their involvement, and the way the average young criminal thinks once he has served time whether its 1yr. or 10 they look at it on the streets as they have paid their dues down the road and wear it as if it were a badge of honor. and most often times return worse than they left. all though there are a lot of law officers in this county that leave a lot to be desired mostly from their attitudes and lack of experience in dealing with the emotions of the human race i must say that even though its for the protection of the citizens to have these criminals off the street if even for a short time. our law officers are seemingly beating a dead horse at the ever increasing risk of their own life. take one criminal off the streets and two more takes his place.
Posted by travlr423 (anonymous) on June 9, 2009 at 3:46 p.m. (Suggest removal)
as far as people commenting about the law letting these situations escalate to this point, i dont think the law officials had anything to do with the choices of these kind. if you know there are illegal drugs in you community or your neighbor hood you should form some type of community partnership with your neighbors and take pictures make notes and present your evidence to the proper authorities stick together and take back your neighbor hood and quit blaming the authorities for the lack of character in your community. you can remain scared and throw the blame or you can get involved and make a difference.
Posted by travlr423 (anonymous) on June 9, 2009 at 4:15 p.m. (Suggest removal)
mcCoy photo would make good photo for the (mug shot) article that comes out around shelby county area. for the most sporting criminal hairstyles.
Posted by KatherineReece (anonymous) on June 9, 2009 at 4:58 p.m. (Suggest removal)
As far as time my ex was convicted of felony assault, since a handgun was used the minimum sentence was 10 years, felony assault carried a max. sentence of ten years. So he was sentenced to 10 years, and served three. However I'll have chronic pain from it forever.
Posted by ATC1962 (anonymous) on June 9, 2009 at 7:30 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Good Job on the part of our local law enforcement agencies. Strangely enough, for some reason and the posts from the previous article one might have been lead to believe young kids got in a fight and went home and told ADULTS ie ... family what had happened and then the adults took to defending them. HMMMM. did anyone else possibly draw the same conclusion? Obviously late age teenagers unsupervised and doing whatever. This is sad and so sad that a culture allows you to just pull a gun and shot someone for any reason. They probably will not have to serve enough time to make a change that is the really bad part. Am glad these are not our neighbors.
Posted by DCZ70 (anonymous) on June 16, 2009 at 3:13 p.m. (Suggest removal)
I know the Jones kid and he is 16 and was in the 8th grade which told me he was not a very self motivated person. I had found out through several of his classmates he was a known drug dealer through out the school. I personally talked to the kid about it and he never denied it. I talked to him about making good decisions and trying to make something of himself and I would help him anyway I could. Well he shot that to H*** (no pun intended) This kid has had a lot of people try and help him ,so he has no excuse, I hope they throw away the key!
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