Arrest made in shooting of 11-year-old Chamblee boy
Police arrested a man late Thursday in the shooting of a sleeping 11-year-old Chamblee boy.
Cody Dane Bauer, 18, has been charged with aggravated assault in connection with the shooting of Nicholas Sheffey, police said.
Officers arrested Bauer Thursday around 9:30 p.m., police said.
Sheffey was shot about 12:30 a.m. while sleeping in his home on Admiral Drive.
Bauer's parents, however, said Friday that their son was at home when the shooting occurred.
"He couldn't have done it," the suspect's father, Phil Bauer, said. "He was in bed when it happened."
According to Chamblee Police Chief Marc Johnson, investigators believe Sheffey's 16-year-old brother might have been the intended target of the gunfire.
Several shots were fired into the older boy's bedroom from the front yard of the house. One of the bullets went through that bedroom and into a second bedroom where the younger boy was sleeping, Johnson said.
Sheffey was taken to Children's Healthcare of Atlanta at Scottish Rite, and Johnson said he was in critical condition about eight hours after the shooting.
"In the initial investigation, we got wind of the 16-year-old brother having received some threats recently in regards to a robbery that he was alleged to have participated in -- a home invasion," Johnson told the AJC. "We located some of the victims of that robbery, and it hadn't been reported because the victims were involved with drugs."
The 16-year-old, whose name has not been released, was arrested by DeKalb County police and charged with armed robbery in connection with the earlier home invasion, which happened at the Gentry's Walk apartments off North Peachtree Road, Johnson said.
