N.C. man turns himself in after shooting of adult, juvenile

April 20 (UPI) -- A North Carolina man who was wanted by police in connection with shooting and injuring two adults and a young child over a basketball that rolled into his yard has turned himself in, police said Thursday.

Robert Louis Singletary, 24, was "in custody" on Thursday night after he was arrested by deputies with the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office in Tampa, Fla., where he turned himself in, police in North Carolina said in a statement.

Singletary had been on the run since Tuesday when the shooting occurred, three states away, sparking a massive manhunt.

The adult victims were identified by the Gaston County Police Department in North Carolina as William James White and Ashley Hildebrand.

The name of the child victim was not released but was identified by NBC News as the 6-year-old daughter of White and Hildebrand.

White remains in serious condition at a hospital in Charlotte while Hildebrand was reported to have suffered a grazing gunshot wound.

A fourth victim, Derrick Kenneth Prather, was also described as being shot at but not hit.

"It was very scary," Hilderbrand told NBC News. "My daughter actually got to come home last night. She just had a bullet fragment in her cheek. Still, scary, but my husband, he's still in the hospital."

North Carolina authorities were still searching for Singletery earlier Thursday for the shooting in Gastonia as Gaston County Police Chief Stephen Zill said the public should consider him armed and dangerous.

Neighbors told WSOC-TV that Singletary apparently became angry when a basketball rolled into his yard while children were playing nearby. The father of the juvenile remains hospitalized.

Singleton has been charged with four counts of attempted first-degree murder, two counts of assault with a deadly weapon with the intent to kill inflicting serious injury, and one count of possession of a firearm by a felon.

Late last year, Gastonia Police Department had charged Singletary for assaulting his girlfriend, 21, with a mini sledgehammer.