Commerce Police Department detectives have charged two men with robbing a Maysville couple and shooting the husband just after noon Saturday outside a business on U.S. 441 in Commerce.
Commerce police have charged 20-year-old Jaiquan Chase and 21-year-old Dailan Alston, both of Macon, with two counts of aggravated assault and armed robbery and one count of possession of a firearm during the commission of a crime, said Chief Ken Harmon.
When officers arrived Saturday afternoon, they learned a Maysville couple had been robbed as they arrived at the business.
Two men were waiting in the parking lot of the business in a silver Honda. As the victims returned to their vehicle, the males robbed the 62-year-old woman at gunpoint. As her 68-year-old husband came to help her, one of the men fired a single shot striking the man in the upper chest.
The two men completed the robbery and fled the scene. The victims were able to provide responding officers with the last three digits of the tag number. Officers from the Commerce Police Department, deputies from the Jackson County Sheriff’s Office, and the Banks County Sheriff’s Office blanketed the area to look for the suspects.
Detectives were able to determine the remainder of the tag number and that the suspects had traveled into Banks County, Harmon said.
A Banks County deputy sheriff located the suspect vehicle a few hours later in Crossing Place Apartments. Detectives, with the help of community members, were able to identify the apartment that the occupants of the suspect vehicle had entered.
The men inside the apartment met the description of the suspects in the robbery and were detained, and evidence gathered in the search of the apartment confirmed the detectives’ findings, Harmon said.
At the time of the report, the 68-year-old man who as shot was recovering from his injuries in an area medical center, Harmon said. The victim’s name has not been released.
Harmon and his agency thank partners Jackson County Sheriff’s Office and Banks County Sheriff’s Office for their help on the scene and during the investigation as well as the Jackson County 9-1-1 Center and Georgia Bureau of Investigations for their help in collecting intelligence during the investigative process.
