Authorities probing drive-by shooting
Published 2:00 pm Friday, August 4, 2017
- Crime alert.
MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga. — Gunfire erupted in the Milledgeville Park Avenue neighborhood early Tuesday leading to bullets damaging two houses and a vehicle, but no one was injured.
It marks the third time within the past couple of years that one of the houses has been damaged by gunfire.
A woman and her five children lived in one of the houses damaged in the hail of gunfire.
As of Thursday, no arrests had been made in connection with what Baldwin County Sheriff’s Office Detective Capt. Brad King called a drive-by shooting.
Detective Chris Youngblood is working to establish leads in the case.
The shooting happened sometime between 1:15 a.m. and 1:30 a.m., according to an incident report filed by Deputy Benjamin Forbus, who along with two other deputies, Brandon Towe and Jerome Roberts, also responded to the call.
When Towe got the 100 block of Park Avenue, he spotted several shell casings outside a residence. Forbus and Towe later discovered several others. Fifteen casings in all were found in the roadway, deputies said.
King said at least two weapons were used in the shooting — one described as a 9 mm pistol, the other as a .380-caliber handgun.
After Roberts got to the scene, he and Rowe talked with one of the residents and gained permission from the woman to search for one of the bullets that had damaged the front door of the home, Forbus said in his report.
Roberts determined that one of the bullets was lodged in the frame of a door leading into the kitchen.
Forbus later spoke to a woman who said she had been awakened by the sound of gunshots.
The victim said she heard several shots outside her residence.
Another woman at a nearby residence told deputies she also heard the gunshots.
The mother of five children told deputies that she didn’t see a vehicle and wasn’t able to provide any other information.
Forbus said he also talked with two other women in the neighborhood and learned that they had seen a pickup truck leaving the area shortly after they heard the gunshots.
The women told the deputy that they saw what they believed to be a red and silver Ford Ranger with a shiny tool box in the bed of the truck. The truck was seen heading southwest along Park Avenue. The driver later reportedly turned around and sped back up the street and headed northeast toward Swint Avenue.
Authorities were also able to gain information about another vehicle seen leaving the neighborhood shortly after the shooting.
A red-colored truck, believed possibly to have been a Toyota Tundra, with lights on its top, reportedly was seen a short time later. The driver of the truck reportedly sped up the street in a northeasterly direction and then out of the neighborhood.
Anyone with information about the shooting is asked to call the Baldwin County Sheriff’s Office tip line at 478-445-5102.