2nd suspect charged in Mobile Walmart shooting, robbery
A second suspect in a shooting and robbery at a Mobile Walmart in mid-May has been taken into custody.
Mobile police said 20-year-old Ja’Shawn Jacobie Thomas was arrested Tuesday and taken to Mobile Metro Jail, where he remains held without bond pending an initial court appearance.
Thomas is charged with 1st-degree robbery and 1st-degree assault. Police say he and another suspect shot and robbed a man in the parking lot of the Walmart on Schillinger Road in Mobile on May 11.
The other suspect, 19-year-old Jabarrion Williams, was arrested two days after the incident.
In 2022, Thomas was convicted of 2nd-degree robbery. While the judge suspended a five-year prison sentence, he ordered Thomas to be placed on three years probation, which he is still serving and is now charged with violating.
If found guilty of the new charges, the five-year suspended sentence could be imposed, along with possible sentences of 20 years to life for the robbery charge and two to 20 years for the assault.