A 42-year-old Chester man who was the subject of an area-wide manhunt after officials say he shot another Chester man in the head with a bow or crossbow in a rural area of Crawford County late Sunday or early Monday morning turned himself in to police on Monday.
Authorities say Kenneth Larribe Miesen surrendered at the Crawford County Justice Center shortly after 2 p.m.and was booked on suspicion of first-degree battery and is being held without bond pending an arraignment on Wednesday morning.
Miesen became the subject of a a manhunt after officials found 41-year-old Raymond Holson in his residence on Front Street in Chester with a wound to the head just after midnight on Sunday.
He told officers he had driven himself home, a distance of about 15 miles, after being shot.
Holson, who apparently was shot somewhere along McCaslin Branch Dive, was air-lifted to Washington Regional Medical Center in Fayetteville where he was treated and released on Monday afternoon.
Miesen has several misdemeanor arrests on his record over the past ten years for traffic violations, contempt of court, DWI and failure to pay child support and two felony convictions from March of 2008 for negligent homicide and leaving the scene of an accident resulting in death or personal injury.
