Shooting investigated in Jackson Co, suspects arrested in Franklin Co

Investigators in the Jackson County Sheriff’s Office continue to sort through details of a shooting that left two people wounded with what were described as non life-threatening injuries: three people were arrested after the shots were fired at an apartment complex off Highway 124 in Jackson County.

A North Carolina man is arrested in a manhunt that ended in Franklin County: Mikal James is 33 years old, from Charlotte. He and 28 year-old Rashad Sinclair, also of Charlotte, were arrested after a traffic stop and after James tried to run away on foot. They were booked into the Franklin County jail on drug and weapons charges.