Rest area shooting suspect moved from NY to NC
CABARRUS COUNTY, NC (WBTV) - One of the suspects in a rest area shooting that left a man paralyzed is back in North Carolina. He was arrested in New York by the FBI.
On November 28, Greg McKee was shot at the southbound rest area off of I-85 in Cabarrus County. McKee and his family were traveling from Virginia back to Gaston County when they stopped at the rest area.
McKee told deputies that he was washing his hands when two men came into the restroom and stood on either side of him. He said he turned to run out and that's when he was shot in the back. He is now paralyzed from the thighs down.
Terrell David Thomas, 29, is charged with assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill inflicting serious injury and robbery with a dangerous weapon.
Another man, Darren Manuel, was arrested in Charlotte in connection to the shooting. Investigators say they learned Manuel was "conspiring with associates to murder" McKee.
The affidavit says Manuel contacted his girlfriend, Keyona Desiree Powell while in jail and told her to contact Thomas and tell him that McKee "had to go and he didn't care when or how it happened, but he had 'to go'."
According to the affidavit, a search was conducted by Manuel's parole officer and he admitted to his role in the crime, saying "that's me in the video," referring to the surveillance video from the rest area sent out prior to his arrest to help identify the suspects. Clothes in his bedroom matched clothes he was seen wearing in the video.
Deputies say Thomas fled to New York after the shooting but is now in the Cabarrus County Jail and being held under a $3,000,000 bond.
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