By Delayna Earley
The Island News
Port Royal Police have arrested two subjects connected to a shooting on Thursday morning, Oct. 17, off Ribaut Road.
Charles Clayton Fullington, 19, was charged on Friday, Oct. 18 with attempted murder, aggravated breach of peace, drug possession, discharging a firearm into an occupied vehicle and a felony firearms offense.
He is currently behind held at the Beaufort County Detention Center.
Capt. John Griffith, spokesperson for the Port Royal Police Department, said that Theodore Lamont Frazier, 22, is considered a person of interest in the shooting but has not been charged in connection with the incident as of Monday.
Frazier was arrested in Jasper County on Friday on unrelated charges and was released on bond.
Reports of shots fired brought officers to the parking lot of Agave Mexican Grill at 11:52 a.m. on Thursday morning where they found several spent shell castings according to a press release sent out by the Port Royal Police Department.
A vehicle that was stopped at a red light at the intersection of Ribaut Road and Lady’s Island Drive was hit by a bullet, but no injuries were reported.
The shooting remains under investigation.
Delayna Earley, who joined The Island News in 2022, formerly worked as a photojournalist for The Island Packet/The Beaufort Gazette, as well as newspapers in Indiana and Virginia. She can be reached at delayna.theislandnews@gmail.com.
