Robber shot by armed driver faces carjack
charge
Originally ran here
as:
"Man shot by driver faces carjack
charge"
Friday, July 27, 2001
BY GLENN SMITH,
Of The Post and Courier staff
A 40-year-old Line Street man was charged Thursday with trying to carjack a man
who then shot him on the East Side last weekend.
Police say Vincent Clark and
several others jumped in the man's Nissan Xterra after he stopped to ask
directions at Sheppard and Nassau streets. Clark is accused of punching the
motorist, Ryan Smith, in the face, Charleston police said.
Smith, 27, grabbed a .25-caliber
pistol from his glove compartment and shot Clark in the chest. Police determined
Smith acted in self-defense and did not charge him in the incident.
Clark, however, was charged Thursday with attempted carjacking. He appeared in
bond court in a wheelchair, but stood for his hearing.
He had been charged Saturday with
robbing at knifepoint another lost motorist seeking directions in the same area
July 9, police said.
In addition, he was charged
Thursday with selling 0.2 of a gram of imitation crack cocaine to undercover
Charleston police on June 20 at Lee and Meeting streets.
Magistrate Jack Guedalia set bail
on the two most recent charges at $120,000.
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