MOULTRIE — A teenager reported she was shot in the foot with a BB gun early Thursday morning.
A Colquitt County sheriff’s deputy was called to Colquitt Regional Medical Center on South Main Street at 3:17 a.m. Thursday about the shooting. The deputy spoke with the 16-year-old girl, who stated she had been shot in the foot by an unknown person at an unknown location.
The girl told the deputy she was sitting in a chair in the house’s yard between 2:30 a.m. and 3 a.m. Thursday while a group of boy were playing with a BB gun. Not knowing the gun was loaded, one of the boys fired a pellet that hit the girl in the foot near her ankle.
The girl’s grandmother told the deputy she had not spoken to the girl since 3 p.m. Tuesday, but she knew the girl was with friends. A female acquaintance took the girl the Colquitt Regional for treatment of the injury.
Arrests
Moultrie Police
• Donald Wayne Hightower, 44, of 950 Edgehill Circle, Apt. 113, in Tallahassee, Fla., was charged Wednesday with DUI, tail lights required and improper parking.
Colquitt County S.O.
• Phillip Leroy Mayo, 40, of 176 Walker St. in Enigma, was charged Wednesday with issuing bad checks.
• Lynette Brianna Queen, 19, of 1143 Faison Road, was charged Monday with simple battery.
Berlin Police
• Kristie Nell Driggers, 33, of 206 Church Road, was charged Thursday with driving with a suspended license.
Other Incidents
Moultrie Police
• Alicia McCorvey reported someone threw eggs at her Pontiac Grand Am as she drove on West Central Avenue Wednesday.
• An employee at Wal-Mart on South Veterans Parkway reported someone passed a counterfeit $20 bill and a counterfeit $100 bill between 6 a.m. Sunday and 10:42 a.m. Wednesday.
Colquitt County S.O.
• Chassidy Mitchell reported a thief stole her LG cell phone from her pocket book while she was at a house on Sunlight Pine between Nov. 6 and 6:12 p.m. Wednesday. The value of the stolen cell phone was $319. Mitchell gave sheriff’s deputies the names of two male suspects.
• Allison Lewis, of West Berrien Avenue in Ellenton, reported a male acquaintance tore down a house door Wednesday. Damage was $600.
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