A 40-year-old Norcross man is being held without bond on multiple charges in connection with a machete attack against a man he accused of breaking into his home, Gwinnett County authorities said.
Joey Harrison Shelby has been charged with aggravated assault, burglary and criminal damage to property in the second degree, the Gwinnett County Sheriff’s Office said in a news release.
Sheriff’s deputies arrested Shelby without incident Tuesday on the loading dock of the warehouse where he worked on Breckinridge Boulevard. The suspect is being held in Gwinnett County Jail.
According to a Gwinnett County Police Department incident report, a man and woman were asleep in their apartment on Hampton Crossing in the Hampton Woods Apartments early on the morning of Sept. 17 when the woman was awakened by a knock on the door.
The woman answered the knock, and Shelby was standing there, asking to speak with her male companion, police said. The woman told him to wait and closed the door.
As she went to get her companion, Shelby kicked in the door, walked to the bedroom and began yelling at the man, accusing him of having broken into his residence earlier in the day, police said. Shelby allegedly punched the man, and as the victim fought back, the attacker pulled out a machete and threatened to kill him.
The man and women fled the apartment, and Shelby left in a brown Dodge van with an expired paper tag, police said. The woman then saw that someone had smashed the driver’s side window and windshield of her sport-utility vehicle.
The male victim sustained cuts to his face and hands, police said. He told investigators that he had seen Shelby in his apartment complex many times but they were not friends. Police said they recovered the machete used in the attack.
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