Lufkin Police served a warrant Monday on a man wanted in
connection to numerous “JaccBoyWorld” shootings.
Kem’Royn Edwards, 18, remains in the Angelina County Jail on
a $500,000 bond.
Around 11:15 a.m. Monday, officers were called to the 800
block of Abney Avenue to a report of shots fired. A witness reported hearing
gunshots and seeing a black male in a yellow hoodie and shorts flee the area.
Officers patrolled the area and located the suspect and
another man standing outside a man’s car, talking to him through the window.
Edwards initially gave officers a fake name. The two other men identified
themselves and were not found to have warrants. After the identifying
information Edwards gave did not return, a detective who has worked several
recent shootings was called to the scene.
The detective immediately identified Edwards, and Edwards
admitted the detective was correct.
Officers located two guns – a pistol in the possession of
one of the men Edwards was talking to and another inside the vehicle the men
were standing next to.
Edwards was placed under arrest for failure to identify in
addition to the first-degree felony warrant for engaging in organized criminal
activity.
The guns were collected as evidence.
Edwards is one
of 13 JaccBoyWorld affiliates indicted last December. The indictments stem from
several gang-related incidents including the Jan. 2020 shooting in front of
Lufkin Middle School, a Feb. 2020 police pursuit involving a stolen pickup in
which three were arrested and in possession of firearms and a June 2020
drive-by shooting in the 600 block of West Grove Avenue in which two adults and
four children under the age of eight were in the yard. No one was injured in
the incident.
Thanks,
Jessica
Pebsworth
Communications
Director
City
of Lufkin
