Police: Salisbury Man Armed With Shotgun Arrested for Assault

Cherrodde T. Corbin

SALISBURY, Md.- A Salisbury man is facing assault and related charges following accusations that he waved around a loaded shotgun during an argument. 

The Wicomico County Sheriff's Office said it happened shortly before 11 a.m. Thursday at an apartment complex located on the 800 block of Schumaker Drive in Salisbury. Deputies were called there after receiving a report about an altercation involved a firearm.                              

The Sheriff's Office said that upon arrival, the deputies met some of the people involved who stated that an argument broke out in a third floor apartment at which point one of the residents, Cherrodde Corbin began brandishing a loaded shotgun. When police were called to the scene, Corbin threw the shotgun off the third floor balcony before climbing down off of the balcony himself, the Sheriff's Office said. 

Deputies recovered the loaded shotgun and also located Corbin in the vicinity and placed him under arrest for first-degree assault and reckless endangerment. 

Corbin was ordered held without bond in the Wicomico County Detention Center pending a District Court bond review.

 

 

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