Scotland County man charged with attempted murder in Hamlet shooting

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HAMLET — The Hamlet Police Department has charged a man in connection to a shooting on Pine Street on Thursday, Dec. 8.

An arrest warrant for suspect Jeremy Tyrone Lewis of Scotland County was approved while investigators were processing a dual crime scene.

In partnership with probation officers, Lewis was apprehended Monday morning and charged with attempted murder, discharging a firearm into an occupied vehicle, assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill and felony possession of a firearm.

Records with the North Carolina Department of Public Safety reveal that that Lewis has prior convictions for assault and child abuse.

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