Ethan Jamieson, the former child actor best known for playing the District 4 male tribute in The Hunger Games, was arrested in North Carolina after Raleigh police said he fired a shot at a vehicle carrying three people. The 27-year-old was taken into custody on March 23 and now faces three counts of assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill.
Police said officers responded to a report of shots fired in Raleigh on March 22 at about 9:52 p.m. When they arrived, they found a victim who said an unknown suspect riding an e-bike had fired at the vehicle while it was moving, according to a police account. Detectives later identified Jamieson as the person who discharged a single gunshot in the direction of the victims’ vehicle.
Jamieson’s name may still be familiar to moviegoers who remember the 2012 adaptation of The Hunger Games, but his screen career had already slowed by then. He made his acting debut in 2009 on One Tree Hill, appeared in the 2010 TV movie The Rusty Bucket Kids: Lincoln, Journey to 16 and had his last acting credit in 2013 on Justified. In a 2012 interview, he said he wanted to be “just a normal person,” and called the reaction to the film “pretty awesome,” adding that he knew the books were popular but did not realize how big the movie would become.
The case also comes after Jamieson was previously arrested in March 2025 for resisting a public officer, adding another legal problem to a record that now spans more than one incident. His court date is set for April 30. For now, the unanswered question is not who Jamieson is, but what led him from a childhood role in one of the biggest teen franchises of its era to a felony case in Raleigh.
