Suspect in fatal shooting gives up

A Crittenden County man accused of killing a 16-yearold and shooting three other people Wednesday in Jonesboro surrendered Saturday, a police spokesman said. Flando Montgomery, 19, surrendered just after noon Saturday, about two hours after the Jonesboro Police Department publicly named him as a suspect in the case, according to police spokesman Sgt. Lyle Waterworth. Montgomery is accused in the fatal shooting of Malcolm Jemison, 16, and in the shooting injuries of Quenterius Finch, 23; Cedric Finch, 28; and Chauncey Thomas, 21, all of Jonesboro, Waterworth said. Jonesboro police were sent about 6 p.m. to 3516 Galaxy St., where officers found the four people with gunshot wounds. All four were taken to hospitals, where Jemison died, Waterworth said. Officers learned that two gunmen entered the Galaxy Street house and began shooting, he said. Jonesboro police have not identified the second person reported to have entered the residence with Montgomery. Montgomery was arrested in August on charges of aggravated robbery and theft of property related to an incident in July in Crittenden County, court documents said. He was arrested again in October on charges of fleeing police and possession of a controlled substance, court documents said. Montgomery was not listed on the Craighead County jail’s roster as of Saturday afternoon. Thomas, one of the men injured Wednesday, was charged in 2017 with first-degree murder, though witnesses later recanted he was involved in a shooting that killed a man and injured six others in Jonesboro, according to previous reports. Monterio Barnes, 18, was killed and the other six were wounded in the now-closed venue The Basement in March 2017. A second man charged in the shooting, Kalius “KK” Lane, pleaded guilty in October and was sentenced to 40 years in prison, according to previous reports. Thomas pleaded guilty to hindering apprehension.