March 13, 2009

Special Edition: Recent Shootings

  • By Linda Sickler
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  • linda@connectsavannah.com
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Below are the latest in a string of shootings in the area. See a story about this rash of violence in this week’s issue.

- Shortly after 1:00 p.m. on March 4, Metro Police responded to the intersection of Anderson and Jefferson streets on a report of shots fired between two vehicles. When officers responded to the scene, they found numerous shell casings. Both cars fled the scene before police arrived. One person was arrested and police recovered one of the vehicles.

Police are now searching for 18-year-old Rashamel Marquise Lewis and 21-year-old James Earl Wright, both of Savannah. Both are wanted for questioning by Metro Police.

Lewis is a black male, 5 feet 8 inches tall, weighing 155 pounds, with short clean-cut black hair and brown eyes. Wright is a black male, 5 feet 4 inches tall, weighing 145 pounds, with long black hair and brown eyes.

- On March 5 at 2:35 p.m., Metro Police received a report of a person shot in the 1100 block of East 55th Street. They located one male suffering from a gunshot wound to the arm, and were alerted by witnesses that a male getting into a car was involved in the shooting.

The victim, 17-year-old Quayshawn Marquis Floyd of Savannah, was taken to Memorial Medical Center where he was treated. The suspect fled from officers after jumping into a white 2004 Pontiac Grand Am, and a brief chase followed.

The pursuit ended after the driver misjudged a turn at 57th and Panama streets, causing the car to hit a curve and a group of bushes. The suspect, Andre Robert Bonds, 20, fled, but was quickly caught inside a residence in the 1400 block of East 56th Street after he kicked a door in.

Bonds was charged with Aggravated Assault and various traffic violations. Later, police arrested Kasim Muhammuh Baker, 20, in the same case and charged him with aggravated assault.

Two guns were recovered at the scene of the shooting. Police believe the shooting was a result of a possible drug dispute between two separate groups within the same neighborhood.

Due to the shooting occurring around the same time schools were letting out, police immediately placed nearby schools on lockdown and detoured school buses that were scheduled to drop kids off in the incident area.

- Metro Police are searching for a man wanted in connection with a shooting March 8 in Savannah’s midtown. Just before 6:30 p.m., police received a report of shots heard in the area of the 100 block of Seminole Street.

As officers were responding to the area, police received an additional report of a person who had been shot. Officers responded to Chatham Street, where they located a male suffering from at least one gunshot wound to the leg.

Police have identified the shooter as Robert Jonte "Peezy" Parker, 25. Parker is described as a black male, 5 feet, 7 inches tall and weighing 180 pounds with black hair and brown eyes. Police believe the shooting stems from an earlier argument between Parker and the victim.

- At 3:40 p.m. on March 9, Metro Police responded to the intersection of West 34th Street at Burroughs, where they found a male victim suffering from at least one gunshot wound to the leg. The victim was transported to Memorial Medical Center. Police believe this is an isolated incident and that the victim and suspect(s) know one another.

- Local police believe a man wanted for several felony charges stemming from a shooting in Statesboro is in the Savannah Area. Three of four shooters have been arrested, and police are seeking the fourth, Dante Ravon Wililams, aka "Lil One," 17.

On March 10, four armed suspects entered Luetta Moore Community Park located on Church Street in Statesboro and opened fire on a crowd, wounding two teenagers and one adult male. All four fled the scene.

Williams is a black male with a stocky build, 5 feett 4 inches tall, weighing 150-160 pounds, with black hair and brown eyes. Police believe he now has short to low hair and is no longer wearing his hair in dreadlocks.

Police say Williams is known to frequent Clearview Homes in the 1000 block of West 41th Street and could possibly be visiting a patient at Candler Hospital. He should be considered armed and dangerous.

Anyone with information about any of these cases should call detectives at 651-6728 or Crime Stoppers at 234-2020. Or text CRIMES (274637) and in the body type "CStop2020" plus the tip. Tipsters can remain anonymous and may qualify for a cash award

 

 

 


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