A man arrested near the scene of a weekend shooting faces a felony charge for fighting a Lowndes County sheriff’s investigator.
Jakolby Brooks, 21, is charged with simple assault of a law enforcement officer.
Deputies were investigating a shooting scene on Swedenburg Circle where a person was killed and another injured at about 11:20 p.m. Saturday, when a detective photographing the area noticed a Black male, later identified as Brooks, sitting in a vehicle nearby, according to a sheriff
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