An apparent domestic dispute near downtown Columbus Friday morning sent a man to Baptist Memorial Hospital-Golden Triangle with a gunshot wound to the leg.
Columbus police arrested Shamik Jackson, 24, of Columbus, after she reportedly shot the man with a handgun at an apartment complex on Fifth Avenue North, located behind Municipal Court Judge Gary Goodwin’s office. Her bond hearing is set for Monday, CPD Capt. Brent Swan said.
Officers responded to the scene at about 10 a.m. Friday. According to Assistant Police Chief Fred Shelton, the victim was shot in the upper thigh in his apartment. His injury appears to be non life-threatening, Shelton said.
Jackson was taken into custody near the Columbus-Lowndes Public Library a few blocks away. Shelton said the alleged shooter, who is apparently in a romantic relationship with the victim, will likely be charged with aggravated assault and domestic violence charges. She had at least one child in the car with her at the time of her arrest.
Chastity Martin, who works in Goodwin’s office next to the apartment complex, said she heard a gunshot.
“As soon as I heard the gunshot, I locked the door and called 911,” she said.
She looked out the window and saw what appeared to be an injured man wrestling with a woman holding a gun on the sidewalk just outside the apartment where Shelton said the shooting occurred. The woman was holding a gun, she said. A child was right beside the couple. The gun could have gone off and shot any three of them, Martin said.
“(The victim) was never coming at her aggressively,” Martin said. “He was like pleading with her. But I saw the gun. It was silver. It looked like my dad’s .45.”
Martin said that at one point the gun landed on the sidewalk. CPD found the weapon in the apartment and now have it in custody, Shelton said.
Martin said she has worked at Goodwin’s office for five years and frequently locks the office doors. She has seen people fighting in the apartment complex, she said, but she’s never seen anything like this shooting.
“I was not expecting that to go down,” she said.
CPD is still investigating the incident.
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