Man was arrested in Burke County after convicting the postal employee during Carjacking for more than 20 years in prison

25-year-old Jaden Isaiah Garay from Weaverville, NC, was sentenced to 24 years in prison on Thursday (March 13), followed by five years of supervised release for carjacking and unloading of a firearm that caused serious assault to a US mail company. After the incident of 2023, he was custody in Burke County. The announcement was made by Russ Ferguson, the US lawyer of the western district of North Carolina. In addition to the imposed prison sentence, Garay was instructed to pay the victim of $ 640,582.81 and $ 73,868.14 to the Office of Workers Compensation program.

Sheriff Banks Hinceman Burke County was one of those who announced us at the announcement. According to court documents and legal proceedings, a invited semi -automatic pistol and several invited ammunition magazines from the house of his relatives steel after an argument with them. Court files show that the accused used the stolen weapon on September 5, 2023 at around 11:50 a.m. on the I-26 near Mars Hill to shot a shot in a passenger passenger. The ball smashed the passenger window and stuck in the vehicle; The inmates did not hit. The ball was later restored by the law enforcement authorities and agreed with the stolen ammunition.

After the shooting incident, Garay drove to the city of Mars Hill, where he left his vehicle and took the stolen firearm with him. Garay then went through a residential area and broke a house and entered a house while the homeowner was inside. Garay met the homeowner, threatened to shoot her dog, and ordered her to get on her knees. The homeowner refused to do this and said Garay that he had to do it while she was standing if he was shooting her. Garay then went into the garage, where he tried to found one of the vehicles. He was unsuccessful, so he left the residence and continued through the neighborhood.

According to court files, he came across a rural postal company for the USPostdienst Teresa Ramsay, who delivered a post to a residential area in her Jeep Wrangler in her Jeep Wrangler. Garay approached Ramsay, told her, he needed her car and pointed the pistol on her. The victim tried to meet Garay's demand, but had to move forward slightly to leave the vehicle because her door was blocked by a mailbox. Garay then shot Ramsay in the face, and the victim fell out of her vehicle and on the floor. Garay climbed into the victim's vehicle and drove off, so that Ramsay lay on the head with a heavy firing wound on the head.

After submitted court documents, Garay drove the stolen vehicle on the I-40 some time later, where he was discovered by the law enforcement authorities. Police officers started a vehicle with activated lights and sirens. Garay refused to stop and instead fled at high speed. The officers stopped “Stop -Sticks” on the highway, but Garay did not stop, even after driving over the stop sticks. Garay finally left the Interstate and continued to escape officers and drove three miles on the back streets. He finally came to a dead end in which he left the victim's jeep and fled into a forested area that was still armed with the stolen firearm. Dozens of law enforcement officers searched for Garay, who hid the night in the forest. The next morning Garay was detained in Burke County and recovered the stolen firearm.

The victim suffered life -threatening injuries from the gunshot wound. Some of the victim's injuries are permanent and it is faced with a lengthy recovery. On April 15, 2024, Garay guilty of leading Carjack in relation to serious bodily harm and relieving a firearm during and in terms of violent crime. Garay is in federal custody and, after the name of a federal institution, is transferred to the care of the German Council.

At the announcement, the US lawyer Ferguson praised several agencies for their support. This included the Sheriff's office of Burke County, the EMS, emergency management and the communication center, the Caldwell County Sheriff's Office, the Catawba County Sheriff's Office and the Morganton Department of Public Safety.