Two men remain behind bars after a cell phone robbery that caused some excitement outside a Snellville Walmart on New Year’s Eve.

It was around 3:30 Sunday afternoon when 911 calls began pouring in from the store’s parking lot on Scenic Highway.

“A guy was just chasing somebody through the parking lot shooting at him in the car,” says one 911 caller.

Snellville Police officers arrived at the Walmart within minutes and detained the man with the gun. At the same time, an officer working a part-time job at Eastside Medical Center called in a report of a patient brought in with gunshot wounds.

“It was probably… two or three hours after he showed up at the hospital that we realized he wasn’t the victim anymore. He was the actual suspect in the case,” says Det. Kevin Seay.

He tells WSB’s Sandra Parrish that Jaylen Holmes, who suffered three gunshot wounds to his arm, eventually confessed that he and his cousin, Rayquan Smith, had robbed the victim of the cell phone that he was trying to sell them. The parties met up at the Walmart for the transaction.

“This was done in broad daylight,” says Seay. “It just goes to show that this can happen anywhere at any time and to anybody.”

He recommends conducting such transactions in police parking lots where there is usually surveillance video.

As for the victim, who is an armed security guard, he will not be facing any charges.

“He was using self-defense. He had the legal right to possess a firearm and he used that firearm to potentially save his own life,” says Seay.