Witnesses to Sunday night’s shooting in Walker County, Georgia, that injured a Walker County deputy and a 47-year-old man said that anywhere from 30-40 shots were fired during the incident.
Robert Carter, the property owner and landlord of 12 apartments on Claire Street on the east side of Missionary Ridge in Rossville, said that at about 9:30 p.m. two Walker County sheriff’s vehicles pulled up to one of the apartments for a house call.
Sheriff Steve Wilson in a statement said deputies were dispatched to a call about an unwanted person at the residence and found a man sitting on the porch when they got there.
The man was Sherman Travis Thomas, 47, who was staying with a woman who rents from Carter.
Thomas was not a resident of the apartments but, according to Carter, was asked to leave by the woman who was trying to help him out as he was going through a rough time.