Domestic dispute at the heart of N. Charleston shooting

A romantic triangle appears to be at the center of a shooting Tuesday on Fillmore Street that left a 23-year-old man with multiple gunshot wounds, North Charleston police said.

William Tyrelle Palmer remained hospitalized Wednesday with wounds to the chest, abdomen, right arm and right leg, police said. Medical University Hospital officials would not release his condition, but police said they were told he remained in serious, but stable, condition.

Joseph Rashad Johnson, 19, of Ladson, remained in the Charleston County jail Wednesday, charged with assault and battery with intent to kill, authorities said.

The shooting reportedly occurred after Palmer showed up at his former girlfriend's house at 2208 Fillmore St. to take his two children to school at 6:45 a.m. There, he ran into Johnson, the woman's current boyfriend, and an argument broke out outside the home, police public information officer Spencer Pryor said.

The girlfriend, Shaquetta Jones, 17, told police she heard shots fired and ran outside to find Palmer wounded and Johnson driving off.

Officers found Johnson's blood-smeared car abandoned behind his sister's Sherwood Street home, police said. Officers then surrounded a home on Dutton Street after learning the suspect had taken a cab there, an incident report stated.

Johnson ran off through the woods when he saw police, but officers located him behind a house a short time later, staggering and disoriented, police said. After being examined at an area hospital, Johnson gave police a written statement implicating himself in the shooting and led investigators to the spot where he had dumped the revolver behind his sister's home, a police report stated.

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