Jacksonville, North Carolina News Updates

Gunman Identified in Apartment Complex Shooting
The Onslow County Medical Examiner has identified the man killed by Jacksonville police. Samuel Jarolim, age unknown, was shot and killed this morning after pointing his weapon at Jacksonville Police. Onslow County Emergency dispatchers received a 911 call at 8:03 a.m. about a man at Azalea Garden Apartments with several weapons.
When Police officers arrived, they told the man to drop the weapons. The gunman advanced towards the officers and one of them fired a shot. The gunman died at the scene. A Witness Todd Devita, manager of the AutoBrite Car Wash, said he saw the gunman standing in the driveway of Canterbury Apartments, which is across the road from Devita's car wash. Devita said he heard two gunshots before the gunman, who had a rifle aimed at police, dropped to the ground.

Gun in Hubert Murder Found by Police

Onslow County Sheriff’s investigators have located the weapon used to kill Hubert mom, Cheryl Dee Burgess.
Acting on a tip provided to the Sheriff's Department, investigators secured a search warrant for a particular home where the weapon was located. Investigators went to 203 Snapper Court in Hubert and located the shotgun which was found under the bed.
The shotgun will be processed at the Sheriff’s Department as evidence.
According to police records, a deputy was sent to 108 Queens Road late Wednesday to handle a disagreement between Justin Smith and Burgess, his mother. Smith was transported to another location.
Smith allegedly received a shotgun from a friend and returned to his mother’s house, according to police. He then returned the shotgun to his friend. Smith has since been charged with an open count of murder and is being held in the Onslow County Jail without a bond.

Man Charged with Muder in Mother's Death

UPDATED STORY:

Hubert, North Carolina -At approximately 10:00 a.m. Thursday, neighbors on Queens Road in Hubert, North Carolina heard screams coming from 108 Queens Road. They were the screams of a family member who had just made a gruesome discovery in the home. Onslow County Sheriff's arrived at the home located at 108 Queens Road where they found the body of Cheryl Dee Burgess.

Her son, Justin Randell Smith, 23, became a “person of interest” in his mother’s death and has now been located by the police. Investigators have charged him with an open count of murder, and he is being held in the Onslow County Jail without bond.
“I was watching TV and heard screaming,” said Krystal McKenzie, who lives directly across the street from 108 Queens Road. “I looked and saw a woman banging on a car screaming, ‘No! No!’”
Within minutes, the Sheriff’s Department and an ambulance arrived, said Eugene Vaughn, another neighbor. After a few minutes, the ambulance left empty.
Onslow County Sheriff Ed Brown confirmed that the woman was dead when deputies arrived. Sheriff’s detectives and crime scene investigators spent a rainy afternoon at 108 Queens Road talking to witnesses and processing the scene.
The woman’s body was transported to the morgue at Onslow Memorial Hospital and Dr. John Alameida will perform an autopsy.
Neighbor, Krystal McKenzie said it had been quiet across the street for a few months, but before that, loud arguments between Smith and other family members would wake neighbors up in the middle of the night.
“(Smith) would be out in the front yard at 4 a.m. kicking the trash can over and shouting profanity,” McKenzie said.
Smith’s criminal conviction history includes assault of a government official on New Year’s Eve 2008, and several larceny charges and breaking and entering.
The time period neighbors said there were no altercations at 108 Queens Road coincides with Smith’s incarceration for probation revocation from April to until the end of June.