Woman accused of shooting at car parked next to her at Macon Walmart
Exactly what triggered a shooting outside an east Macon Walmart earlier this month appears to remain a mystery.
But a sheriff’s report of the July 11 episode mentions that the 62-year-old woman who allegedly began shooting at another woman in the parking lot there seemed “extremely inebriated.”
The report, recently obtained by The Telegraph, notes that a Bibb County sheriff’s deputy was sent to the store at 1401 Gray Highway shortly before 8 o’clock that Saturday night.
The victim, a 59-year-old woman who was sitting in the driver’s seat of a maroon Ford F-150 pickup, “said that a woman just shot at her” for no apparent reason but missed, the report noted, adding that the shooter was still in the parking lot. “(The victim) pointed at a white ... Lincoln LS that was parked in a middle lane of the parking lot.”
The deputy took the woman, 62, into custody and soon found a Taurus five-shot revolver on the floorboard of the Lincoln. A man in the car said he was the woman’s boyfriend and, because ‘the accused would not cooperate,” the boyfriend identified the shooter as Lucy Meeks.
The boyfriend said the gun was his, that he had walked out of the store in the wake of the shooting.
Meeks, who lives at Baker’s Acres mobile home park on Joycliff Road, “appeared to be extremely inebriated,” the sheriff’s report said.
“The victim explained that she parked beside (Meeks) and (Meeks) began to say something and then pointed a gun at her. (Meeks) then fired the gun in her direction. Bullets hit (the victim’s) vehicle on the front driver side fender area. ... The victim then immediately pulled away.”
Meeks was still being held Monday at the Bibb jail.