One man is dead and another is in jail, after a shooting Monday at a Steens house.
George Strickland fled to nearby Red”s Body Shop on Highway 50, to call 911, after allegedly shooting an unidentified man at the home Strickland shares with his wife, just two doors down.
He handed the gun over to the owner and waited for sheriff”s deputies to arrive.
Witnesses at the body shop said Strickland told them he had caught his wife with another man this morning, and he shot the man in self-defense.
“He said he was going to kill him, but he got him first,” said one man, who was waiting at the body shop for an estimate on repairs from hitting a deer.
Strickland also reportedly was afraid his wife would retaliate.
Witnesses at the body shop refused to be identified by name.
Strickland ran into the body shop at about 10 a.m. His wife had gone to a neighbor”s house, also to call the police.
The victim was pronounced dead at the scene, and Strickland is being held at the Lowndes County Adult Detention Center.
Authorities have not released the name of the deceased.
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