‘Hunger Games’ actor arrested in Raleigh weeks after shot fired from e-bike at vehicle :: WRAL.com
An actor from the “Hunger Games” motion pictures was arrested final week on assault fees in Raleigh after a shot was fired from an electrical bicycle at a shifting vehicle.
Ethan Brody Jamieson, 27, who performed a tribute in the “Hunger Games” sequence, is charged with three counts of assault with a lethal weapon with intent to kill, in response to Raleigh police.
Police mentioned Jamieson was recognized as a suspect following a March 22 incident in which an individual on an e-bicycle shot at a truck on Wakefield Plantation Drive in Raleigh. Three folks had been in the truck at the time, together with a 14-year-old boy.
“He turns the corner real quick and starts coming straight towards me. I honked my horn a little bit like, ‘what’s going on?’ and he turns around and starts following me,” mentioned Elijah Fernandez, who had been driving the truck.
Fernandez mentioned he then noticed the suspect throw the bicycle into the highway.
“So I’m like, ‘Oh, so he’s trying to block the road off; he’s going to throw something at my truck,'” he mentioned. “That’s after I see him lifting his arms slightly bit.
“I’m like, ‘Oh, no. He’s about to shoot.’ So, we all get down.”
Fernandez mentioned everybody ducked contained in the truck whereas he continued to drive.
“I couldn’t tell you what was going through my mind,” Fernandez mentioned. “All I knew was that I was getting down. I couldn’t see where I was driving.”
Fernandez mentioned he had the home windows down on the truck, too. He mentioned he and a few buddies had been fishing earlier than driving house in the truck.
Fernandez mentioned he rewatched the “Hunger Games” motion pictures after he realized of Jamieson’s arrest.
Watch: ‘He’s about to shoot’: Man describes driving truck while he says ‘Hunger Games’ actor shot at him
Court paperwork present a warrant for Jamieson’s arrest was issued on April 8, and he was arrested on April 9.
Authorities are holding Jamieson with out bond. A court docket date is scheduled for April 30.
Records present Jamieson was beforehand arrested in March 2025 for a cost of resisting a public officer.
According to IMDb, the actor performed a boy from “District 4” in the primary “Hunger Games” film, which was launched in 2012. He has additionally appeared in a minor function in the TV sequence “One Tree Hill,” which is filmed in Wilmington.
His final display credit score was in 2013.
