Phenix City police charge one, seek second suspect after robbery at Walmart

Phenix City police have captured one suspect and are seeking a second after a Sunday robbery at a Walmart where shots were fired.

Police said they captured Shemekia Brooks and charged her with first-degree robbery after chasing a silver 2015 Kia Optima from the store at 3700 U.S.. Highway 280.

Officers were hunting Monday for a second suspect, Deuante Levon Richardson, who ran away after the Optima wrecked, police said. He is wanted for first-degree robbery and carrying a pistol without a license, they said.

Police said they were called to reports of a robbery with shots fired at the store at 9:24 p.m., and upon arrival learned no one had been injured, and the suspects had fled in the Optima.

Officers with the Lee County Sheriff’s Office later located the Optima a few miles away in the Bleeker Junction area, where the driver sped away, initiating a chase that ended when the Optima wrecked, police said.

Anyone with more information on the case may contact police at 334-298-0611 or 334-448-2840.

Tim Chitwood

Columbus Ledger-Enquirer

706-571-8508

Tim Chitwood is from Seale, Alabama, and started as a police beat reporter with the Ledger-Enquirer in 1982. He since has covered Columbus’ serial killings and other homicides, following some from the scene of the crime to trial verdicts and ensuing appeals. He also has been a Ledger-Enquirer humor columnist since 1987. He’s a graduate of Auburn University, and started out working for the weekly Phenix Citizen in Phenix City, Ala.