RFP Staff
♦ Tuesday Salisbury Police Sources reported officers were dispatched to the Colonial Village Apartments at 11:53 a.m. on 231 D Avenue in Salisbury on a report of multiple gunshots being fired into an apartment. When they arrived they learned Thaaeus Aakeem Minter, 24, of Salisbury had allegedly fired into an apartment and received return gunfire allegedly from Deshunta Jaquan Hyde, 22, of Lincolnton Road in Salisbury.
Several children, playing on the apartment complex playground, were ushered to safety by a neighbor. No injuries were reported at the scene. The shooting incident was said to be an escalating domestic dispute.
Minter was arrested and charged with assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill, (felony), discharging a firearm into an occupied property (felony), carrying a concealed gun (misdemeanor). Under a secured $100,000 bond, Minter is being held in the Rowan County Detention Center.
Thaddeus Akkeem Minter:
Colonial Village Apartments:
Minter fled through a wooded area toward BB&T Bank and Rite Aid Pharmacy on Jake Alexander Boulevard. Police, already in the area, arrested the suspect without further incident.
Thaddeus Aakeem Minter’s Previous Record:
**This article will be updated as soon as more information becomes available.**
