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Suspect out on bond for carjacking at time of shootingTue, 09/05/2006 - 4:11pm
By: John Munford
A teen arrested Friday for shooting his girlfriend at his north Fayette home was out on bond at the time from an attempted carjacking in June, police said. But the attorney for Rahim Malik Grant, 17, of 280 Fairfield Circle, says that her client didn’t shoot the victim, but instead the gun discharged when it fell to the floor after the victim grabbed at the holster on top of a bed at the residence. Grant is currently jailed without bond on charges related to the shooting, according to Lt. Col. Bruce Jordan of the Fayette County Sheriff’s Department. Until Friday, Grant was free on a $10,000 bond authorized by Fayette County Magistrate Joe Tinsley for aggravated assault from the June attempted carjacking and another $5,000 bond from a May charge of making terroristic threats, according to court documents. The May incident involved threats to injure another person and burn a house down, according to court documents. The victim in Friday’s shooting, who was shot in the chest, was released from the hospital Tuesday, said Grant’s attorney, Judy Chidester. Although Grant was in the room when the gun went off, he did not witness the shot because he was pulling a shirt over his head at the time, Chidester said. Grant assisted the victim as his mother drove them after the shooting to Piedmont Fayette Hospital, Jordan said. Grant has been charged with aggravated assault, possession of a firearm during the commission of a crime and possession of a firearm by a person under 18. When Jordan first encountered Grant at the hospital, he “seemed to be high on something,” Jordan said. When Grant was arrested in June on the attempted carjacking case, deputies found several weapons at Grant’s Fairfield Circle residence, including what officers described as an assault rifle, a 9mm handgun and a nickel-plated .380, the latter of which was used in the carjacking, Jordan said. A search of Grant’s home Friday turned up several more weapons including another assault rifle, Jordan said. “They had gone out and gotten some more guns,” Jordan said. Chidester said the guns were not Grant’s but rather had been left at the residence by a previous visitor. The day before Grant’s June arrest for aggravated assault, Jordan was in the area of the Westbridge subdivision following up on a lead when he was followed by another vehicle that tried to flag him down with flashing lights, he said. Ultimately the vehicle pulled alongside and one of the passengers complimented Jordan’s vehicle, an unmarked Dodge Charger, before driving away. It wasn’t until later when witnesses were being interviewed about the carjacking attempt that it was learned that a passenger in that car was seconds away from shooting Jordan before another passenger intervened because of the suspicion that Jordan might be a police officer, he said. Grant’s mother has told court officials that her son is an aspiring rapper. login to post comments
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