GRIFFIN, Ga. — A drive-by shooting has left a woman in critical condition, and people in the home where it happened say it’s a blessing they are alive.
It happened in Griffin on Monday evening on Thompson Street.
People inside the home told Channel 2’s Tom Jones a barrage of bullets barely missed them.
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“I mean we had bullets coming everywhere. I was blessed I ain’t get hit,” Reginald Braselton said.
Braselton said he is blessed after gunmen fired more than a dozen shots into his home. Jones asked him, if the bullets would have been just a little bit over? Braselton didn’t allow him to finish the sentence: “I’d have been dead.”
Braselton was in his bed near where the bullets left huge holes in the wall. Jones counted at least 12 bullet holes. More in another wall.
“One right here and one right here,” Braselton said, pointing to bullets in another wall.
Judith Meyers was in the room, too. She says she went to the bathroom right before the shooting started.
“And all of a sudden, Bam, bam, bam, bam,’” she said.
Griffin police say one of those bullets hit a woman who lives here in the head during the drive-by.
A manager with the nonprofit organization Higher Calling Inc. said it rents out the home to people who are unhoused.
Meyers says the woman hit was outside.
“She was out there on the porch. And I told her don’t put those chairs out there,” Meyers said.
Officers say a surveillance camera captured the car the shooters left in. They say tag reading cameras then located the car. Officers then arrested 19-year-old Amber Jenkins and 17-year-old Gregory Thomas.
Police are searching for 19-year-old Nehemiah Ridgeway.
“It don’t make no sense. Kids doing this,” Braselton said.
Braselton says it is tough erasing the memory of all those bullets coming through the wall.
“I been crying all night,” he said.
Police haven’t released a motive for the shooting. The victim remains in the hospital where she is critical.
The defendants face five counts of aggravated assault, drive-by shooting and other charges.
Police ask anyone who knows where Nehemiah Ridgeway is to give them a call at 770-229-6452.
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