Early Tuesday morning, North Charleston Police (NCPD) arrested a 21-year-old Charleston man accused of shooting out windows at several businesses in a shopping plaza in July.

The incident happened shortly after 4 a.m. July 1st at the Festival Centre on Ashley Phosphate Road. Officers were dispatched after Dorchester County deputies, who were in the area on an unrelated call, reported that an unknown vehicle had driven through the plaza and fired at the windows of several businesses.

Police said the damage varied from small holes in the glass to large sections of windows being blown out. A witness told officers that a vehicle drove through the area while someone inside the vehicle fired what appeared to be a BB or pellet gun. The resulting damage was significant.

Following an investigation, police identified 21-year-old Joshua James Anderson of Charleston as the suspected shooter.

Shortly before 6:30 a.m., Anderson surrendered to North Charleston Police at City Hall.

Anderson was charged with two counts of Malicious Injury to Property Greater than $2,000. He was lodged at the Dorchester County detention center.