Savannah-Chatham police Friday arrested a 23-year-old man on charges related to a July 2012 shootout on Savannah’s eastside that left one man dead.
Raheem Saamad Hicks, of East 39th Street, was captured by U.S. Marshals from the Southeast Regional Firearms Task Force, Savannah-Chatham violent crimes detectives, crime suppression officers and canine officers Friday morning.
Savannah-Chatham police investigators determined the July 24 shootout in the 200 block of South Avalon Drive stemmed from an ongoing dispute between Hicks and Rasheed Johnson, said Julian Miller, police spokesman. Johnson was found dead at the scene after the shooting.
Miller said Hicks was driving a white Hyundai Sonata and 25-year-old Richard Antonio Jiles was in the vehicle with him when the shootout occurred.
The Sonata crashed into a house on Avalon after both Hicks and Jiles were shot, Miller said. Hicks was taken to Memorial University Medical Center by a neighbor and Jiles was transported by ambulance.
Hicks faces charges including possession of a firearm while committing a crime, terroristic threats and acts, and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon stemming from the shooting. He also faces four unrelated felony warrants for robbery, possession of illegal substances with intent to distribute, and two counts of burglary, Miller said.
Guns were found underneath Johnson’s deceased body, in the front seat of the wrecked car and on the lawn where the shooting occurred, Miller said.