DEL.ICIO.USUpdated: 12:17 p.m. June 16, 2009
Charges dropped against shooting victim
One of four victims now cooperating with police
Monday, June 15, 2009
College Park police have dropped charges of obstruction of justice issued against one of Sunday night’s four shooting victims.
Xavier Arlander Turner, 34, of Jonesboro was treated at Southern Regional Hospital and charged with obstruction of justice Sunday night after the shooting. The charges were dropped Monday after he began cooperating with police, Lt. Reed Pollard said.
College Park police
John Andre Jones, 32, is wanted on four counts of aggravated assault.
Police are still searching for John Andre Jones, 32, who is charged with four counts of aggravated assult after shooting Turner and three others with an assault rifle Sunday night.
“One of the victims picked him out of a photo lineup,” Sgt. Eddie Atkins said.
Revenge may have been the motive behind the shooting, which sent all four victims to the hospital.
“We think it was a retaliation shooting,” Atkins said, declining to elaborate.
Jones, driving a maroon Pontiac G-6 or similar vehicle, allegedly used an assault rifle to fire upon four people riding in a Toyota Corolla, police said. Three victims were taken to Grady Hospital suffering from gunshot wounds: Ebony Oshana Sealey, 19, of College Park, Quinton Shawn Chaney, 24, of College Park and Tiffany Armstrong, whose age and address were not available.
Police said the three are in stable condition.
The shooting took place outside the Hampton Place Townhomes. The driver of the Toyota drove away before pulling over in the parking lot of a Wachovia Bank at the corner of Old National Highway and Old Bill Cook Road in South Fulton County and calling police.
—Staff writers Chip Towers and Alyse Knorr contributed to this report.
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