WILMINGTON — Authorities have made in an arrest after a Monday night shooting sent a man to the hospital.
According to the Wilmington Police Department, 25-year old March Addison Richey, Jr. was arrested on Tuesday afternoon. Richey was charged with ‘assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill or seriously injure,’ possession of a firearm by a felon, and discharging a firearm in Wilmington city limits (a local ordinance).
Richey is being held at the New Hanover County Sheriff’s Office detention center on a $200,000 secured bond. Richey has past convictions over the last seven to eight years for larceny, breaking and entering, drug dealing, and parole/probation violations.
Wilmington police have not commented on whether Monday’s shooting was related to a violent gun battle between two vehicles on Mother’ Day which resulted in one dead and three teenagers arrested.
