A shooting early Christmas morning left a Ruston man wounded, prompting a search for the suspect who was located two days later.
Cedric Subastin Williams, 50, of Ruston, was booked December 27 for attempted second degree murder, illegal use of a weapon, possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, and resisting an officer.
When Ruston Police officers responded to the Northern Louisiana Medical Center emergency room at about 12:40 a.m. Christmas morning, they learned the 45-year-old victim had sustained a gunshot wound to his arm. During the investigation, officers determined the shooting occurred at a party in the area of Union Avenue and identified Williams as the shooter.
Williams was later located and arrested Saturday after officers spotted him at a convenience store on South Farmerville Street. At the time of his arrest, Williams initially gave a false name and date of birth, according to police. He is being held at the Lincoln Parish Detention Center with bail set at $1.1 million.
According to court records, Williams has a previous aggravated assault conviction in Lincoln Parish and was arrested three weeks ago for failure to register as a sex offender in a large-scale North Louisiana operation on sex offense violations.
This information has been provided by a law enforcement agency as public information. Persons named or shown in photographs or video as suspects in a criminal investigation, or arrested and charged with a crime, have not been convicted of any criminal offense and are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
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