WILMINGTON — A 38-year-old man has been arrested and charged with first-degree murder after allegedly intentionally striking and killing a man with his truck last month.
According to the Wilmington Police Department, “Members of the US Marshals Fugitive Taskforce with the Wilmington Police Department arrested 38-year-old Jimmy Davis Hollingsworth Jr early Thursday afternoon on charges of first-degree murder.”
Officers responded to the incident on July 20 around 10 p.m. after reports of a man intentionally striking another man with his truck and leaving the scene.
“EMS transported the victim, 57-year-old David St. Armand, to New Hanover Regional Medical Center, where he died from complications of his injuries days later,” according to a press release. According to witnesses, Hollingsworth got into a verbal altercation in the parking lot with several people and made threats before leaving earlier that night. A short time later Hollingsworth returned, at which point he hit St. Armand with the truck he was driving, and fled the scene,” according to the Wilmington Police Department.
Hollingsworth is currently being held at New Hanover County Jail without a bond.
