Police now have in custody the suspect identified in a fatal shooting that claimed the life of a Goldsboro teenager Sunday.
Jacques Torraine Atkinson, 18, was arrested Monday morning shortly after midnight. Authorities say Atkinson turned himself in at the Wayne County Magistrate’s Office. Atkinson is charged with Murder and is being held in the Wayne County Jail without bond.
Law enforcement officers found 19-year-old Michael Jerome Wimbush shot multiple times when they arrived in the 900 block of Carver Drive Sunday afternoon. Medical personnel with Wayne County EMS confirmed he was dead. Atkinson was later developed as a suspect.
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