Police continue search for 'sweet 16′ party shooter
Witnesses quickly scattered when shots were fired at a Gwinnett County "Sweet 16″ celebration, according to a police report of the weekend incident.
Some said they saw nothing while others gave descriptions of the shooter that were so varied investigators have not been able to focus on one suspect. Police said no one at the crime scene was able to provide names of possible suspects or describe a vehicle that might have been involved.
So there still have been no arrests, Gwinnett County police said Tuesday.
Around 11 p.m. Saturday, someone shot "randomly" into a house on Lock Ness Lane in unincorporated Gwinnett where about about 50 teens were celebrating a birthday.
Four teens, ages 15 to 17, were shot leg, foot, arm or buttocks, but only one of them was seriously wounded, police said.
Those who were not wounded ran when the shots sounded.
An officer wrote that he caught one witness he saw sprinting into the woods when he pulled up at the scene just outside of Snellville. The other witness was already in the back seat of a patrol car.
"Both witnesses stated that they heard gunfire and ran for cover," according to the report. "Both witnesses stated that they didn't see the suspect(s). The witnesses were released to their parents."
The responding officers wrote they didn't believe the shooting was gang-related. Police also said they have not found a connection to drugs either.
This was the third teen party in three months to end in violence.
Last November a Chapel Hill High School senior was beaten to death at a party in Douglasville. A week later, three teens were shot, one fatally, at a Rockdale County bash. That led authorities in Conyers to adopt a "zero tolerance" policy toward large house parties.
