HAMLET — A man who was wanted by police, accused in a weekend shooting, has turned himself in.
According to investigators with the Hamlet Police Department, 26-year-old Kelais Omarie Worley fired six shots into a home occupied by two people in the area of Freeman Mill Road around 9 a.m. Saturday, June 18. Police say no injuries were reported.
The department published a wanted poster for Worley to its Facebook page around 1 p.m. that day.
Police say Worley surrendered on Sunday and Richmond County Jail records show he was booked at 9:01 p.m.
Worley is charged with two counts of assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill, and one count each of discharging a weapon into an occupied property, injury to real property and discharging a firearm in city limits.
He is being held under a $125,000 secured bond and is scheduled to appear in court July 14.
Online records with the N.C. Court System and the N.C. Department of Public Safety show Worley has no other pending charges or prior convictions in the state.
All defendants facing criminal charges are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
