The Sheriff’s Office was dispatched to an apartment outside Clinton at 9:08 last night to investigate what appears to be a case of a gun being fired from one apartment into another. A man advised Deputy Staton that around 7:00 last evening he heard a noise and thought his neighbor may have dropped something against the wall. He said that around 9:00 when he went into his upstairs bedroom to get ready for bed he noticed items from his night table were on the floor. He looked further and discovered a bullet hole under the night table. It appeared that a bullet entered his apartment, traveled through the night table, through an interior wall and became lodged in a closet wall. A report noted the bullet appeared to have come from downstairs in a neighboring apartment.
Sgt. Simmons arrived and assisted in speaking with subjects in the adjoining apartment. A woman who lives next door was reportedly uncooperative with the officers, saying they would need a search warrant to look in her apartment. Lt. Shelton arrived and spoke with the woman, reportedly obtaining permission to enter. While the woman had reportedly told officers that no one else was there, two highly intoxicated men, from Cross Hill and Laurens, were reportedly found asleep in a bedroom of the apartment. A bullet hole was reportedly discovered in the bedroom area.
Meanwhile, Lt. Shelton and Lt. Holmes decided a search warrant was necessary. Lt. Blackmon later arrived with the search warrant and the apartment was searched. No weapon was found during that search.
No arrest were noted in connection with the shooting, but he sheriff’s Office had four suspects, including a 2nd female subject; all in their 20s.