One person charged, another shot in the rear after alleged theft of watch and cell phone

A Columbia man was charged with larceny while his friend was taken to the hospital for a gunshot wound to the “buttocks and hand,” after a private meeting to buy a watch went bad Thursday night.

Zayvone Tornell Green,19, and a friend went to 3600 Falling Springs Road Thursday night ostensibly to buy a $1,000 watch from two men they were meeting there, Columbia Police said in a news release.

Green allegedly stole the watch and a cell phone and fled the scene. Green’s friend was shot “twice in the buttocks and hand” by one of the victims while fleeing, the victims said when they called 9-1-1.

Officers arriving to investigate administered first aid to the shooting victim, who was not identified publicly, and went in search of Green.

Green was found “hiding in a closet’ in an apartment located at 3642 Falling Springs Road, police said.

The 5th circuit solicitor’s office was considering whether charges against the man who shot Green’s friend were warranted, the news release stated.

Green was being held at the Alvin S Glenn Detention Center Friday night.

This story was originally published July 1, 2017 at 12:45 AM with the headline "One person charged, another shot in the rear after alleged theft of watch and cell phone."