Evans still at large. Souter behind bars in Lake City for different firearm incident and Gibson captured Saturday after manhunt.
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Jeremiah Gibson (left) was captured Saturday following a manhunt after a Jiffy Food Store in Live Oak was robbed. Calvin Souter Jr. (middle) was arrested Sunday in Lake City for a different firearm incident but is also suspected in armed robberies, as is Demoundre Evans (right), who is still at large and is considered armed and dangerous. (COURTESY)
A Lake City man, already in jail for a firearm incident in Lake City, now faces armed robbery charges in Suwannee County and, possibly, beyond.
Another robbery suspect is still at large and is considered armed and dangerous.
Calvin Souter Jr., 23, was arrested by the Columbia County Sheriff’s Office around 4:40 p.m. Sunday following an incident that morning in Lake City in which gunfire was detected by the city’s FLOCK detection system.
Souter, who was charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, battery and firing a weapon in public, also had a warrant issued Monday for his arrest in an armed robbery in Suwannee County last week.
In the Lake City incident, a victim told Lake City Police Department officers, according to an LCPD release, that 26-year-old Robbrecia Fulton hit them with an eyebrow razor and pulled their hair. Meanwhile, Souter was accused of hitting the victim in the chest and firing a handgun into the air and then pointing it at the victim while threatening to shoot them.
The LCPD release states the victim had a cut above their eye.
The pair then fled the SE Allen Place area in a vehicle, before being spotted five hours later by a CCSO deputy.
Fulton was charged with aggravated battery.
Souter, who is being held in the Columbia County Detention Facility, also is wanted in Suwannee County for a Jan. 31 armed robbery at the Jiffy Food Store at the intersection of U.S. Highway 90 and Mitchell Road west of Live Oak. The Suwannee County Sheriff’s Office also obtained a warrant for 23-year-old Demoundre Evans, of Live Oak, for that robbery as well. Jeremiah Gibson, a 20-year-old from Jasper, was arrested early Saturday morning following another robbery and a manhunt.
Evans is still at large. Anyone with information on Evans’ whereabouts is asked to contact the SCSO at 386-362-2222 or other law enforcement agencies or just call 911.
In the Jan. 31 robbery, an SCSO release states that during the early morning hours, three masked suspects held the store clerk at gunpoint and took money from the register, lottery tickets, cigarettes and the clerk’s purse and cell phone before fleeing west on U.S. 90.
Around 2 a.m. Saturday, the suspects robbed another Jiffy store, this one at the intersection of Ohio Avenue and Duval Street in downtown Live Oak. According to a Live Oak Police Department release, the three armed suspects demanded cash from the store clerk, leaving with an undisclosed amount of money and other miscellaneous items.
The suspects, who also hav been linked to the other Suwannee County robbery as well as incidents in Gainesville, Hamilton County and Echols County, Georgia, were spotted by a CCSO deputy on Interstate 10 a short time later. The suspects fled when the deputy attempted to make a traffic stop. The suspects eventually abandoned the vehicle near the intersection of Interstate 75 and U.S. Highway 129 in Hamilton County, fleeing on foot.
With assistance from K9 teams from both the Suwannee Correctional Institution and Hamilton Correctional Institution in searching the woods and swamps in the area, Gibson was captured.
After he was medically cleared at a nearby hospital, Gibson was arrested and charged with armed robbery for both incidents in Suwannee County as well as grand theft for both robberies, petit theft for the incident in Live Oak as well as theft of a firearm and obstructing justice for the Suwannee County incident.