CHARLOTTE, N.C. — A St. Pauls, North Carolina man was charged with attempted murder after two employees were shot at a hog processing plant in Bladen County just after midnight Thursday, authorities said.
The Bladen County Sheriff’s Office identified 20-year-old Jaquante Hakeem Williams as the suspect in the shooting at Smithfield Foods, which is located at 15855 NC Highway 87 in Tar Heel.
Authorities said at a press conference later Thursday that Williams was a contractor with a sanitation company. The two victims, a man and a woman, were employees of the Smithfield Foods facility. They were shot in a stairwell in the business’s administrative building.
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