The man accused of stealing an expensive collection of Air Jordan shoes and pistol whipping the victim was arrested Monday.
Gavin David Carpenter, 21, was wanted in a home invasion that occurred June 27.
The 29-year-old home invasion victim said the suspect appeared inside his apartment on Shadow Ridge Drive around 10:40 p.m. The man heard a loud thud in another room and peeked into the living room to find an armed man.
The suspect racked the handgun, pointed it at him and asked him “What you got?”, according to a July 12 article in The Augusta Press.
The suspect followed the resident into the apartment bedroom, pistol-whipped him with the handgun several times and then set his sights on his expensive collection of Air Jordan tennis shoes, valued at $170 each. The suspect only carried the left or right shoes for six of the pairs. All of them were size 10.5, the story continued.
“The suspect emptied his clothes basket and started dumping his Air Jordan shoes in the basket,” a sheriff’s report says. “The suspect left out the front door.”
The victim saw another black male in the parking lot with the suspect. After he called 911, the resident observed the sliding door to his bedroom was open and it had been closed and locked all day.
Video footage showed a black Charger circle the parking lot and two black males in dark clothing exit the vehicle and approach the victim’s building. The suspects are then seen entering the vehicle and it leaves the parking lot.
The victim suffered a laceration to the top of his head and a cut that split his ear about 1/4-inch deep and another laceration behind his left ear. Augusta Fire Department officials arrived to treat him, but the victim said he would drive himself to the hospital after waiting over 90 minutes for Gold Cross to arrive, the story said.
Carpenter was charged with home invasion, aggravated assault, kidnapping and possession of a knife or firearm during the commission of a crime. He was booked into the Charles B. Webster Detention Center.
