Multiple shots fired

TIFTON — Fortunately no one was injured when multiple shots were fired at a person Thursday evening in the area of Maple Street and Bellview Avenue. A suspect in the case is in custody on an unrelated charge but police are continuing their investigation.

According to an incident report filed at the Tifton Police Department, Officer David Gay responded to the Maple Street area to reports of a black male chasing another black male down the street and shooting at him.

Gay wrote in his report that when he arrived, an unknown person pointed to a pile of yard debris on Beech Lane, which is between Ermine and Bellview avenues, and told him there was a gun in the pile. Gay found a black Hi Point 40 Smith and Wesson handgun there. He took the gun into evidence.

Detective Lee Dunston of the TPD said Friday that he continues to interview people and investigate the case. He said that a suspect in the case was arrested on an unrelated warrant a short time after the incident.

“We encourage anyone who may have witnessed this incident to give us a call at the Tifton Police Department,” Dunston said.

The TPD’s telephone number is 382-3132.

In other unrelated law enforcement activity:

• A Tifton man reported Thursday that he was notified by his bank that someone had used his credit card in Douglasville. The man froze the account, but someone had used it twice at a Douglasville Walmart, once to charge $200 and again to charge $209.07. The offender attempted to use the card again at a Publix, but the card was declined. The man told authorities in Douglasville that he did not know how the offender gained access to his information because the card is still in his possession.

• A woman who lives in the 3100 block of Emerson O. Bynes reported to a deputy Thursday that someone attempted to take an air conditioner out of her back bedroom window. The deputy reported that the unit was pushed into the room.

• An Omega man reported to a deputy Thursday that someone had used his debit card number and charged $8,241.43 on his South Georgia Banking Company account. Most of the transactions were made in Las Vegas.

• A woman reported to a deputy Thursday that someone had used her 17-year-old daughter’s Social Security number to file an income tax return.

• A man who lives on Docia Road told a deputy that someone had burglarized his house and stolen cash, jewelry, electronics and firearms valued at approximately $5,735.

• A man who lives on Bill Bowen Road reported to a deputy Thursday that a female he knows had stolen $770 out of his pocket while he was asleep.

To contact senior reporter Angie Thompson, call 382-4321.

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