Police charge man with Fort Mill gun store burglary, two other break-ins

Police arrested a man in connection with the burglaries of three Fort Mill businesses, including a gun store, earlier this year.

Tiree Keshawn Waymer, 20, of Charlotte, was arrested Jan. 20 on unrelated charges and placed in the Mecklenburg County jail, according to Maj. Bryan Zachary, a spokesman for the Fort Mill Police Department. He was arrested after a three-week investigation by Fort Mill Police, Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.

Waymer will be charged with three counts of second-degree burglary and one count each of grand larceny and possession of a firearm during a violent crime, Zachary said.

Waymer was arrested in connection with the burglaries of three businesses, including the Jan. 4 burglary of JJ Aim Right Gun Shop on Massey Street, Zachary said.

Officers responded to the gun store about 4:30 a.m. on Jan. 4 after the store’s alarm sounded. They found the store’s front door shattered. Police and store management determined 14 guns were taken from the store.

Waymer also is listed as a suspect in two other burglaries that happened that same morning, according to police reports. Officers responded to Springcrest Jewelers on Springcrest Drive just before 4 a.m. on Jan. 4. The glass front door was busted but nothing was reported missing.

About 6:30 a.m. that same day, officers responded to FM Cleaners on Tom Hall Street, where someone had broken a window and the glass front door, police said. Nothing was reported missing, and the owner said he was last in the business Jan. 2.

Zachary said additional information will be available after “the development and arrest of any other suspects in these cases.”

This story was originally published January 20, 2016 at 7:25 PM with the headline "Police charge man with Fort Mill gun store burglary, two other break-ins."