Two people were arrested and charged after a shootout Monday at a Paulding County mobile home that authorities later said contained a marijuana grow house.
One of the people charged, Rickey Allen Kilgore, 62, is the brother of Paulding sheriff’s Capt. Greg Kilgore, an official confirmed.
“To our knowledge,” sheriff’s spokesman Sgt. Ashley Henson said, “(Greg Kilgore) had no understanding of the wrongdoing taking place at the house.”
Shortly before 3 p.m., deputies responded to a fight in progress in the 8000 block of Dallas Acworth Highway in Dallas, Henson said. The call was upgraded to a shooting in progress involving multiple people.
Rickey Kilgore, the resident, had a verbal confrontation outside the house with two people who were there to mark property lines, Henson said.
“Kilgore went into the residence and returned with a hammer of some sort threatening the victims. Kilgore then went back into the residence and retrieved a rifle and began firing rounds with a rifle at the two victims, striking one of them in the leg,” Henson said.
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The other victim got a gun from his vehicle and returned fire.
Rickey Kilgore then went back inside, got a shotgun and began firing again at the victims, who were pinned down behind vehicles, Henson said.
However, deputies secured the location and all of the weapons when they arrived without firing any shots.
Detectives and agents with the Haralson-Paulding Drug Task Force then found an indoor marijuana growing operation inside the mobile home, authorities said.
Charges against Rickey Kilgore included two counts of aggravated assault, aggravated battery, manufacturing marijuana and possession of marijuana, Henson said.
Meloney Shirley, 60, was charged with manufacturing and possessing marijuana.
The person who was shot is expected to recover.
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