Hopewell, Virginia

From the Petersburg Progress-Index of November 8, 2005

Man fires gun at Huddle House security

The restaurant's private armed security encountered the offender at 2:15 a.m. Security personnel asked the offender to leave the premises because he was being unruly, but the offender returned at 4:10 a.m.

"They were in the business and asked to leave, then the security guard noticed they had reentered the business so he escorted them out," said Lt. Gabriel Costanzo, spokesman for the Hopewell Bureau of Police.

The guards escorted him out of the business and remained in the parking lot while the offender got into a parked vehicle. The offender then drove around, picked up a male customer and started out toward Oaklawn Boulevard, waving a handgun out the driver side window.

He discharged the weapon into the air several times before pointing the gun at one of the security officers in the parking lot. Security personnel returned fire several times, but no one was injured at the scene. The offender continued on to Oaklawn Boulevard, traveling eastbound, and left the area.

The offender has been identified as Immanuel Jordan Taylor, 19, who is last known to have lived in Hopewell.

He is described as an African-American male, approximately is 5 feet 8 inches tall, weighs 165 pounds and has black twist box style hair and a goatee. He was last seen wearing a white T-shirt, dark pants and a dark cap.

Taylor is wanted for attempted malicious shooting, recklessly handling a firearm, brandishing a firearm, trespassing and intentionally discharging a firearm as to create the risk of injury or death.