8-year-old shot during WR drive-by

WARNER ROBINS, Ga. — According to a press release from the Warner Robins Police Department, a juvenile received a gunshot wound to the upper shoulder during a drive-by shooting on Keith Drive Saturday evening. According to Lt. Eric Gossman, police are actively investigating.

“About midnight on Saturday night, there was a call of shots fired over in the 200 block of Keith Drive,” Gossman said. “The resident of [231 Keith Drive] … were in there, there was a mother and her children. At the time that it happened, [the mother] heard the shots, went and checked on her kids, and found that her 8-year-old child had been shot in the upper shoulder.”

According to Gossman, the mother and her three children were the only people in the home at the time of the shooting.

Gossman told The Journal that there is currently believed to be two or three shooters based on the shell casings found at the scene. Pistol-caliber weapons were used during the shooting. The make and model of the vehicle involved is currently unknown.

Following the investigation so far, Gossman said the shooting seems to have been a targeted attack rather than a random act of violence, but not towards those in the home at the time of the incident.

The injured juvenile was transported to the Children’s Hospital of Macon, and according to the release, is in stable condition.

This is an ongoing investigation. WRPD asks that anyone with additional information contact Detective Bobby Stone, lead investigator on the case, at (478) 302-5380, or via their email at bstone@wrga.gov.

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