Dec. 10—A grand jury indicted three people after a man was shot in the back while running away following a robbery last month in Harrison Twp.
Jerrell Lamar Harbor Sr., 37, of Jefferson Twp.; Jermaine Lemont Harbor, 22, of Kettering; and Crystal Marie Carpenter, 35, of Harrison Twp., each were charged with two counts of aggravated robbery and two counts of felonious assault in Montgomery County Common Pleas Court. Each charges has a three-year firearm specification.
Jermaine Harbor also is facing one count each of having weapons while under disability, discharge of a firearm on or near prohibited premises and failure to comply with the order or signal of a police officer.
In addition, Jerrell Harbor is charged with two counts of having weapons while under disability.
All three are scheduled to be arraigned Thursday.
Montgomery County Sheriff’s deputies were called Nov. 30 to Miami Valley Hospital and the 2700 block of Rugby Road near Golfview Avenue for a reported shooting.
Deputies at the hospital spoke to a gunshot victim, who said he was in his car in front of a house on Rugby Road when a woman he knew from Snapchat stopped by to buy marijuana from him, according to an affidavit filed in Vandalia Municipal Court.
After the transaction, two men approached his car with guns drawn, robbed him of his bag of drugs and dragged him out of the car.
The man told police he was shot in the back as he ran away. He was taken to the hospital by a family member who did not witness the shooting, the affidavit stated.
Deputies found shell casings and blood on the north side of Rugby Road, the affidavit said.
The shooting was caught on video, according to court documents, and showed a car pull up to the gunshot victim’s vehicle. A woman gets out of the back of the car, makes a transaction with the victim, then gets back in, investigators said.
The car then pulls out of view, but two men, later identified by investigators as Jermaine and Jerrell Harbor, approach with guns drawn, the affidavit said. Investigators said the men rob the victim, and when the victim runs Jermaine Harbor fires a gun in the air before both chase after the victim out of frame.
Investigators said that the victim is shot in the back, and the men flee in the car.
According to the affidavit, investigators identified the suspects’ vehicle on a Flock camera as it fled the scene.
Deputies spotted the suspect vehicle around 8:30 p.m. and tried to stop it on North Dixie Drive near Bartley Road in Harrison Twp., but it fled. During the pursuit, tire deflation devices were used and the suspect vehicle came to a stop near North Dixie Drive and Republic Drive, the affidavit said.
Investigators said that Jermaine Harbor, Jerrell Harbor and Crystal Carpenter were arrested from the vehicle, and matched the descriptions of the people in the video. Deputies obtained a warrant to search the car and reportedly found a black bag containing a wallet with the gunshot victim’s ID and credit cards, court records stated.