Mother killed as gunfire hits mobile home in Baldwin County
About two dozen rounds were fired late Monday night into a mobile home in south Baldwin County, striking a Milledgeville mother but missing her two children.
About 10:30 p.m. Monday, Baldwin County sheriff’s deputies were called to Lot 5 at 227 Lee St., where Tonya Massey was fatally wounded, Baldwin County sheriff’s Capt. Brad King said.
Shots were fired from an adjacent roadway, King said.
“We hate when an innocent person gets killed,” Sheriff Bill Massee said Tuesday afternoon. “We think she is not the intended victim.”
Massey, 34, was taken from her home to Oconee Regional Medical Center, where she was pronounced dead at 11:25 p.m. Monday, Baldwin County Deputy Coroner Ken Garland said. She was struck in the upper chest.
One of the children was taken to the hospital later for treatment of an unspecified injury, Massee said.
Baldwin deputies, working with the GBI on the case, are trying to determine whether the shooting is related to recent gang violence plaguing the community in the past year.
“It’s still an active investigation,” Massee said. “We have the name of a possible target.”
Milledgeville police also are investigating a shooting reported late Monday night, but Massee said the incident on Grandview Drive, not far from North Jefferson Street, was about four or five miles away from the Lee Street shooting, which is off Vinson Highway.
Massee said he does not think the two shootings are related.
About 11:30 p.m. Monday, a 34-year-old man with a gunshot wound to the back showed up at Oconee Regional Medical Center after being wounded in reported gunfire in the 2400 block of Grandview, according to a Milledgeville Police Department news release.
The man was taken to Medical Center, Navicent Health in Macon where he was in stable condition.
Anyone with information is urged to call Maj. Michael Hudson at 478-414-4075 or the tip line at 478-414-4413.
Liz Fabian: 478-744-4303, @liz_lines
This story was originally published May 31, 2016 at 9:08 AM with the headline "Mother killed as gunfire hits mobile home in Baldwin County."