Baby injured in shooting Friday morning
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A group of women talk outside of Tabitha Walker’s residence following a drive-by shooting that injured a young girl and riddled a car and Walker’s home with bullets.
Dothan police investigators are looking for a man and woman believed to have been involved in a drive-by shooting on Friday morning that left a 16-month-old girl injured.
Tabitha Walker said her daughter, Gambria Bolden, suffered some cuts from the glass of a broken window at her home. Walker and her daughter were among seven people who were out in the yard at the time of the shooting. Walker recalled how a gray or bronze Kia Spectra stopped in the road and how another woman fired about 12 rounds from a gun inside the car toward the house.
Gambria was taken by ambulance to a local hospital for treatment. No one else was injured in the shooting.
“I was scared, we were screaming and hollering,” Walker said. “I was scared for daughter’s life.”
Walker said she recognized the woman who used what she referred to as a “chopper” to shoot at her Grant Street home. Police were called to the neighborhood of Grant Street and Sixth Avenue, near Wiregrass Park, in response to the shooting around 10:30 a.m.
As of Friday evening, no charges had been filed in the shooting. But Dothan Police Officer Thomas Davis, a department spokesperson, said police were looking for a man and woman to question in the investigation.
Davis said police believe a woman to be the alleged shooter, and a man served as the driver of the vehicle involved in the shooting. Davis said both people involved could face at least a single felony count of shooting into an occupied building with possibly more charges.
“It was some type of retaliation from a feud that occurred earlier,” Davis said.
Davis said police believe an automatic weapon was used in the shooting. He called the “chopper” a type of automatic assault rifle. He said the investigation showed the shooting stemmed from an earlier incident that happened at the G-Spot club.
“It hit the window, the car, the roof of the house and inside the house too,” Walker said. “I’m real mad. I’m hurt because I didn’t have anything to do with it. I don’t care about anything but my daughter.”
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