Selma Man Arrested In Smithfield Shooting Two Days After Prison Release
SMITHFIELD – A Selma man has been arrested in connection with a shooting earlier this month in Smithfield, just two days after he was released from state prison.
Rakheim Devon Prather, 34, of Lincoln Street in Selma, was taken into custody Monday night Nov. 17 by Selma Police after officers encountered him on Dogwood Street.
According to investigators, Prather is accused of shooting 36-year-old Tirom Toler in the leg during a confrontation on Nov. 4 around 1 p.m. near the intersection of Harris Street and Collier Drive in Smithfield. Toler was taken by private vehicle to Johnston Medical Center in Smithfield for treatment.
Smithfield Police charged Prather with felony assault with a deadly weapon inflicting serious injury and possession of a firearm by a felon in connection with the Nov. 4 shooting.
Selma Police later filed an additional charge of possession of a firearm by a felon after reportedly finding a handgun in Prather’s possession during Monday night’s arrest.
According to the North Carolina Department of Adult Correction, Prather had been released from state prison on Nov. 2—just two days before the shooting. He had been incarcerated since July 2022, serving time for speeding to elude arrest, drug possession, obstructing justice, and being a habitual felon.
Prather was booked into the Johnston County Detention Center under a $150,000 secured bond.
Smithfield Police said the shooting was not a random act.
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Prisons won’t be effective until we stop making them a place of rehabilitation, Unless we make them like the movie, Clockwork Orange, and make them a place of punishment. Generallywhen people are afraid of the consequences of their actions they don’t commit the actions.
Lock him up for good, he apparently didn’t learn his lesson last time even with the habitual felon charges.
Him and that hairline both went on the run
So many options –
Rakheim really missed his “friend” in prison and was eager to return.
Rakheim didn’t mean to do it. He’s rehabilitated. The gun wasn’t even his. It’s a set up!
Rakheim (aka habitual felon) wanted to keep up with his public persona.
Truth is – our justice system is BROKEN!
And they’ll give this menace another slap on the wrist and allow him to come home in 3-4 years and terrorize the streets again. This is his third time shooting someone and he’s never done a day for it. How many times will they let this felon get caught with a gun? Johnston County won’t be satisfied until he kill someone. The public is too terrified to tell on him and the court system lacks compassion for the community!
Of course, HE SHOULD HAVE BEVER BEEN LET OUT TO START WITH!!! Once again our justice system hard at NOT WORKING. THROW AWAY THE KEY AND NEVER LET HIM OUT! THATS THE ANSWER! Just look at him!
Should have never gotten out, judges are never gonna learn! Throw the key away! Doesn’t need to be a member of society anymore 🤬
How about we start with appropriate length of sentences for crimes, then actually keep them locked up for the ENTIRE sentence. No more “time off for good behavior”, instead let’s do “more time for bad behavior, and finally, no chance of parole, ever. They serve the entire sentence. (A life sentence actually means incarceration until dead.) If more prisons need to be built, DO IT. I’d much rather our tax dollars going toward building more prisons instead of a baseball stadium.
“Sheeeat man. Wasn’t my piece. Wuz holding it fer sumbody”
Until we make jail like it supposed to be, it’s not going to work. …make them work on a chain gang cleaning up our roads. Grow their own food, build their own housing….jail is just a vaca to many. Arapaho from Arizonia or New Mexico (I can’t remember which state he’s from) has the right idea. Now they get 3 meals a day, watch tv all they want, workout in a well equipped weight room…nothing to deter them from NOT wanting to go back…
Its a SLAM DUNK!! EVERYONE HERE AGREES!! 🙌
“ He had been incarcerated since July 2022, serving time for speeding to elude arrest, drug possession, obstructing justice, and being a habitual felon”
Habitual felon. KEEP HIM LOCKED UP!
He must have missed his cell mate or just likes being in jail..These judges aint doing their job..Lock him up and keep him that way he can never do this crime again..You know what they say….what happens twice happens three times. Js
That thing they say about a mind being a terrible thing to waste must have limitations.
He just REALLY must like men..
Put criminals on a island and let nature take its course away from the general public. It’s time to realize there’s nothing man can do to fix this.