North Carolina visitor center security officer viciously attacked and robbed at gunpoint
ASHEBORO NC Jan 30 2018 The man who robbed the Visitor Center security guard at gunpoint and injured him has been identified as Jeremy Lamar Hayes who was already wanted by police and considered to be armed and dangerous.
In this robbery, police say that they identified Hayes via video surveillance footage.
Two witnesses also reported seeing a silver Honda passenger car with tinted windows pull into the center parking lot located on southbound Interstate 73/74 near Seagrove before the robbery. They said a black man got out of the car.
The security guard had gone outside to the vending machine area when a man approached at about 10:20 p.m. Saturday and asked for directions.
Then the man struck the security guard with his fist, pointed a gun at him and stole his cell phone and wallet.
I think he got a fair number of stitches, a deputy sheriff said of the security guard.
Hayes has been charged with robbery with a firearm; assault with a deadly weapon inflicting serious injury; and possession of stolen goods/property in connection with the robbery.
He has been charged in connection with the armed robbery and assault of an elderly Asheboro couple during a home invasion on Wednesday.
He is also a person of interest in the armed robbery of a store on U.S. 64 in Franklinville on Friday night, during which one man was shot and another assaulted. The suspect fled the scene in a car occupied by another individual.
He also has been connected to an assault on an elderly couple in Guilford County.
Investigators say they believe Hayes is possibly in the company of Kennedy Mariah Boggs and driving a silver or gray 2014 Honda Civic with a damaged front right passenger bumper.
Hayes, 28, is described as a black man who stands 6 feet, 5 inches tall, weighs 200 pounds and has tattoos on both hands. Boggs, 25, a white female, is 5 feet 4 inches tall and weighs 200 pounds.
“This is what he knows how to do — point guns and take things,” said sheriff’s Capt. Jason Chabot on Monday.
Hayes served 4 1/2 years in prison for two armed robberies committed in 2011, as well as a 2010 charge of uttering forged paper. He was released on Jan. 28, 2017. According to records from the N.C. Department of Public Safety, Hayes was on parole until Oct. 25, 2017.
