ADAIRSVILLE, Ga. -- Adairsville Police said the man wanted in connection with a shooting at a gas station near Interstate 75 early Monday morning has been arrested in Tennessee.
Police Chief Mike Jones says he had received confirmation that the shooting suspect, 25-year-old Michael Sean Conner of Sparta, Tenn., was arrested Monday morning following a carjacking and short police chase in Marion County, Tenn.
Jones said the driver of the Camry, 20-year-old Destany Marie Schubert of LaFayette, Ga., was arrested Monday evening by Adairsville Police. She has been charged with aggravated assault and remains in the custody of the Bartow County Sheriff's Office.
The Adairsville shooting incident began late Sunday night when police said the suspect's car, a gold-colored Toyota Camry, pulled into the parking lot at a Quik Trip gas station on Georgia Highway 140 near I-75. Police said travelers often will pull off the road at the station to sleep during long drives.
Surveillance cameras showed the suspect's vehicle pulling into the lot at about 10:30 p.m. Sunday. Jones said the gunman remained inside the car for the next several hours.
Shortly after the car stopped, two women got out of the Camry and took turns going inside the gas station.
"There was a female driving," Jones said. "There was another in the back seat."
At about 2:30 a.m. Monday, investigators said the victim, 30-year-old Jonathan Meyer from Clearwater, Fla., parked in a space next to the women. Police said Meyer needed to sleep during a drive from Tennessee to Florida.
About an hour later -- at 3:30 a.m. -- police said a man, later identified as Conner, got out of the car where the two women were. Investigators said he appeared to place something in the back of Meyer's truck, awakening him.
"The gentleman asked him a couple of questions and then demanded for him to get out of the truck, showed him a handgun,” Jones said. “The victim then started backing out. When the victim started backing out of the parking spot, the suspect started firing."
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When he refused to surrender his truck, the gunman shot Meyer in the chest. After that, Meyer crashed his truck into two other vehicles.
Meyer was hospitalized in critical condition following the shooting.
Schubert's mother, 36-year-old Kristy Lynn Davis of Summerville, Ga., who was the back seat passenger, remains unaccounted for. Jones says an arrest warrant has been issued for Davis for aggravated assault. Conner also faces aggravated assault charges. Jones says additional charges for all three are pending.
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