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Two Men Arrested in Home Invasion |
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| Jonathan Brockman Dawson |
Ryan O’Neal Shealy |
Lexington County Sheriff’s Department deputies on Friday, September 18 arrested two 18-year-old Gilbert men in connection with a home invasion that occurred on Friday at a home on Redhaven Road near Gilbert. The home was occupied by two women who are in their 70s.
Lexington County Sheriff James R. Metts said deputies arrested Jonathan Brockman Dawson, 18, of 117 New Village Road, Gilbert, and Ryan O’Neal Shealy, 18, of 826 Haskell Road, Gilbert, at 2:31 a.m. on Friday on a charge of first-degree burglary in connection with the home invasion. Dawson and Shealy were being held on Friday at the Lexington County Detention Center while awaiting bond hearings.
Under South Carolina law, a circuit judge would have to conduct bond hearings for Dawson and Shealy in general sessions court because first-degree burglary carries a maximum punishment of life in prison, Metts said. The 11th Judicial Circuit Solicitor’s Office has not yet scheduled bond hearings for Dawson and Shealy.
At 12:26 a.m. on Friday, Deputy John Reed and Sgt. Christian Smith arrived on scene to investigate a call concerning a home invasion that had occurred at a home on Redhaven Road, Metts said. The officers determined that a 74-year-old woman who lives at the home, along with a 70-year-old woman, heard someone break a glass window pane in a door in the home’s kitchen. The 74-year-old woman then telephoned 9-1-1 in order to get help.
Reed and Smith found a small garden shovel on the ground in front of the kitchen door, Metts said. The officers found that a glass window pane on the bottom right side of the door had been broken in order to gain access to the door’s lock. Reed and Smith also found several drops of human blood near the kitchen door.
While Reed and Smith were at the home on Redhaven Road, the Sheriff’s Department received a call concerning a fight between Dawson and Shealy in the front yard of Shealy’s home, Metts said. Deputies found that Dawson and Shealy both had suffered cuts on their arms and fingers, which were bleeding. Deputies determined that Dawson and Shealy suffered some of their injuries as a result of the home invasion that they committed at the residence on Redhaven Road.
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