Crime

Boyfriend jailed for allegedly opening fire on Perry woman’s car, wounding her

A 22-year-old Houston County woman was shot and seriously wounded Sunday afternoon in a roadside domestic dispute along U.S. 41 on the north side of Perry, police there said.

The victim, Breanne Green, was being treated at a Macon hospital on Monday and expected to survive her bullet wounds, officials said.

Green was shot “multiple times,” according to a police statement, when her boyfriend, Joseph Marcel Fordham, 21, opened fire on the car she was driving near the highway’s intersection with Chapel Ridge Drive, about half a mile north of Perry High School.

Detectives have since said Fordham had been walking behind the car — following Green, as she slowly drove along, stopping and gradually rolling forward during the couple’s argument — when Fordham allegedly began shooting.

Perry police officers, who were about a minute away, rushed to the scene and Fordham was still there, officials said.

He was arrested and charged with aggravated assault under the state’s family violence act. He also faces a gun-possession charge.

Joe Kovac Jr.
The Telegraph
Joe Kovac Jr. writes about local news and features for The Telegraph, with an eye for human-interest stories. Joe is a Warner Robins native and graduate of Warner Robins High. He joined the Telegraph in 1991 after graduating from the University of Georgia. As a Pulliam Fellowship recipient in 1991, Joe worked for the Indianapolis News. His stories have appeared in the Washington Post, the Seattle Times and Atlanta Magazine. He has been a Livingston Award finalist and won numerous Georgia Press Association and Georgia Associated Press awards.
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