GOLDSBORO, N.C. (WNCT) A man wanted for first-degree murder was taken into custody Tuesday night.
Leamon Corderius Holmes was taken into custody by the United States Marshals Service at approximately 9:15 p.m.
The arrest took place in the 1000 block of Gold St. in Wilson.
Holmes was served with warrants for attempted first-degree murder and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.
He was placed in the Wayne County Jail under a $510,000 bond.
Holmes’s first appearance is scheduled for Wednesday afternoon in the Wayne County District Court.
On Sunday at approximately 2:30 a.m., Goldsboro Police Department responded to a disturbance at studio 117, 902 McDaniel Drive.
33-year-old Quinton Deonte Atkinson of Pikeville was involved in an alternation inside the club with Leamon Corderius Holmes.
Officials said, during the altercation, Holmes produced a handgun and shot the victim in the leg and Atkinson was taken to Wayne Memorial Hospital for the treatment of non-life-threatening injuries.
He has since been released.
On Monday, after an investigation was conducted by GPD Criminal Investigations Division warrants were secured on Leamon Corderius Holmes for attempted first-degree murder and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.
