The suspects had fled the scene. Initial reports revealed Howell and Bond had been involved in an altercation with the victim, who was shot while attempting to flee the scene.
Howell, Bond and two others got into a car driven by a woman who began to ask questions when she saw police cars pass with emergency lights on. Howell allegedly put a gun to her head and told her to keep driving. She drove the all the subjects to the Hamilton/Fairfield area, where she dropped them off, police said.
A warrant was issued for Howell for kidnapping.
Following an investigation of the entire incident, Oxford detectives, with help from Hamilton police, arrested both Howell and Bond. A loaded firearm was found in Bond’s possession at the time of arrest, but it was not the gun involved in the May 28 incident.
Police reported following interviews of the pair, it was Bond who had shot the victim and he also confessed to attempting to steal the victim’s car in order to flee the scene.
Bond was charged with felonious assault, a second-degree felony, and theft of a motor vehicle, a fourth-degree felony. Hamilton police also charged him with carrying a concealed weapon.
Howell was charged with kidnapping, a second-degree felony.
Both were taken to the Butler County Jail.
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