Macon mom dodges bullets, believes shooting related to killing at Club Status

A barrage of gunfire interrupted Patricia Fowler’s X-box game early Thursday at her apartment at 1086 Clinton Road.

She was sitting on the couch when at least two dozen bullets flew through the first floor unit.

“It was so close to my head. All I did was duck, and my child ducked, and my husband ducked,” Patricia Fowler said. “I was shook up, shaking and everything. All I wanted to was get my family and put them to the floor.

Fowler believes the shooting is related to Wednesday morning’s killing of 29-year-old Aquallo Davis Jr. at Club Status.

Her son-in-law, who she said was at the club when Davis was shot, spent all day Wednesday at her apartment.

“We don’t have nothing to do with that, and I don’t want nobody bringing trouble here to my house where I have stay and pay rent,” an upset Fowler said as she was cleaning up broken glass all through her apartment, which is about a block off Gray Highway.

The son-in-law got a phone call and left just minutes before the shots rang out.

“(He) had to know something,” she said. “(He) didn’t give us a warning, or nothing.”

Bullets went through the front window, some pierced her living room wall and into the bedroom where her husband was.

Desiree Adams, who lives a couple doors down, thought it was fireworks.

“We came out and it was so smoky (from the bullets),” Adams said.

The complex had been very quiet up until last night when Adams found the neighbor in shock.

“She was very traumatized by it,” Adams said. “She was shaking and screaming and crying. It was pretty bad.”

Fowler knows how lucky she is.

“When the police looked at me, he said, ‘You’re supposed to be gone by now,’” she said.

Dots of bright pink paint on the parking lot pavement marked more than dozens spots of evidence, mostly likely shell casings.

Crime scene technicians also circled and numbered bullet holes in the window. The numbers went well in to the upper 20s.

Two bullets broke the glass of a living room painting, but missed the images of the Madonna and child in the picture.

Fowler is grateful the shots missed them, too.

“We could have been dead in here, all three of us. But thank God that somebody in heaven looked over us,” Fowler said.

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This story was originally published September 3, 2015 at 11:30 AM with the headline "Macon mom dodges bullets, believes shooting related to killing at Club Status ."