Residents frustrated after incidents involving gunfire in quiet Fulton neighborhood

FULTON COUNTY, Ga. — Neighbors in one Fairburn neighborhood say they are frustrated after multiple incidents involving shots being fired in their quiet neighborhood.

Fairburn Police are investigating a series of shootings that occurred on Palm Springs Circle. Officials told Channel 2 Action News the most recent one happened Sunday.

“My wife called me in a panic about 6:30. She said, ‘Jose, there was another shooting, but this time it us,’” neighbor Jose Smyly told WSB Tonight’s Larry Spruill.

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Smyly said he was on his way home when he got that call from his wife.

“It was terrifying. I was in the area. I got home as soon as I could. I looked and saw we had five shots in our house,” Smyly said.

Smyly sent Spruill photos of the bullet holes. There’s one in his door, three near the window, and one in the back of his truck.

“I don’t know what to say. I don’t know what’s going on here,” said Smyly.

On Sunday, when officers responded to the home, they saw a black car leaving. The suspect’s vehicle led officers on a chase and crashed near the intersection of Cedar Grove Road and Parkland Bend.

That’s where the car caught on fire.

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Neighbors said this is the third shooting in just three weeks. The first one was on Nov. 27; the second one happened on Dec. 5, and now this one.

According to police, one home in Palm Springs Circle was the target all three times.

Neighbor Tony Williams told Spruill the area was a quiet and crime-free neighborhood. That was until recently.

“That’s where your antennas go up. That’s when your rabbit ears go up. The first time, you’re like, hmm. Maybe it was just some, whoever this is, just acting out. But they came back three times to the same house,” said Williams.

Neighbors said they’re scared because they don’t know if this will happen a fourth time.

Authorities have not said if anyone was injured in any of the incidents.

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