Police investigate weekend violence

Published 7:57 pm Tuesday, February 25, 2014

Moultrie police are investigating two violent weekend incidents, including one in which a man with whom he argued pointing a gun at him.

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Justin Adams, 19, reported that he got into an argument with a man at about 11:17 a.m. Saturday while walking in the 200 block of Second Avenue Southwest.

He told police that the other man pulled out a pistol, pointed it at him and then fired several shots into the air.

In the second incident, Cameron Klar of Baconton reported that he was robbed while delivering a pizza for Pizza Hut to Northgate Apartments, 1515 Fourth Ave. N.E. No weapon was used, police said.

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 “They (a group) were standing outside,” Moultrie Police Department Inv. Steven Colgan said. “They sent him to a vacant apartment. The area where they were at was dark.”

Klar was robbed of cash and a cell telephone worth a total of $140, police reports said.

Police made an arrest in a third violent incident reported on Sunday.

Travis Cheyenne Willis, 27, 1244 Cannon Road, was charged with aggravated battery after he allegedly broke the nose of 40-year-old Joey Murphy. Murphy was injured during a reported confrontation between the two men at about 1 a.m. in the 1900 block of Second Street Southeast.

Murphy told police that he told Willis to leave a female acquaintance alone and Willis then punched him in the face.

Police talked with Willis on the phone and he agreed to meet a Colquitt County Sheriff’s Office deputy in Norman Park, at which time he was arrested.