A federal jury has convicted 42-year-old Talametrius Kenyon Spruill of Ahoskie, North Carolina, on charges of being a felon in possession of ammunition, stemming from an incident where he fired at Hertford County Sheriff’s Deputies in July 2023.
According to court records and evidence presented at trial, Spruill possessed four cartridge casings that were left behind after he fired at deputies in the early morning hours of July 16, 2023. Deputies responded to a call about a suspicious person after a woman reported that someone was banging on her window at 3am that morning.
The first responding Deputy found Spruill sitting in the front passenger seat of the homeowner’s vehicle, holding a firearm. The Deputy ordered Spruill to put the gun away when Spruill fled to the wood line behind the residence. The second Deputy saw Spruill in the wood line as he pulled up in his squad car, and Spruill fired a Glock 19 semiautomatic handgun four times at the Deputy.
The Deputy retreated and returned fire while tripping over a doghouse on the property and getting bit by the resident dog. Despite the exchange of gunfire, neither the Deputy nor Spruill was struck. Spruill managed to evade deputies and ditch his firearm in a junkyard.
On the evening of July 17, 2023, Hertford County Deputies were dispatched to a call about a suspicious person four miles away in Aulander, where they found Spruill attempting to crawl under his aunt’s home. Spruill was arrested and interviewed by the FBI, where he confessed to being at the original crime scene, running from the police, and discharging his firearm before getting rid of it in the junkyard.
US Attorney Michael Easley praised the bravery of the deputies involved in the case, saying, “Gun violence and attacks on law enforcement officers are an attack on the rule of law itself. We are prioritizing any case where a felon draws, levels, or fires a gun at law enforcement.”
Spruill faces a maximum penalty of 180 months in prison when sentenced on a future date. He still faces state charges of two counts of attempted murder and two counts of assault with a deadly weapon on government officials and possession of a firearm by a felon related to this incident.
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Key Facts
- State: North Carolina
- Agency: DOJ USAO
- Category: Violent Crime
- Source: Official Source ↗
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