Fulton police say shooters on foot, in car exchanged gunfire
FULTON, Mo. (KMIZ)
Fulton police allege that the four men arrested in connection with two weekend shootings exchanged gunfire in residential areas in each incident.
Officers found property damage in the 300 block of West Fifth Street on Sunday morning after a shots-fired call. That afternoon, a person was shot in the 700 block of Jefferson Street. The victim's injuries were not life-threatening, police said.
Fulton police said Sunday that officers took four people in custody for questioning. On Monday the Fulton Police Department said the four men had been arrested.
In each case, police say shots were exchanged between people in a car and people who were walking in the residential areas. One of the men who was walking was shot twice in the back in the second incident, according to probable cause statements filed in the cases against Jason T. Martin and Sammy L. Jackson Jr.
Police say three bullets hit a home in the first shooting. Three children were inside at the time. Two bullets hit a home occupied by four people in the second shooting, according to the statements.
The statements did not mention names in connection with the first shooting but said two people walking down the street were exchanging gunfire with a dark blue Chrysler.
Martin and the shooting victim were walking when shots were fired from the same car in the second shooting, according to the statement. Officers found three men -- Sammy Jackson, Cameron Jackson and Quentin Reed -- and a boy in the car, according to the statements.
Police arrested Martin on suspicion of third-degree assault, child endangerment, armed criminal action, unlawful use of a weapon and first-degree property damage.
Officers arrested Cameron L. Jackson on suspicion of first-degree assault, first-degree property damage and child endangerment.
Quentin Reed was arrested on suspicion of unlawful use of a weapon, first-degree assault, child endangerment and first-degree property damage.
Sammy L. Jackson Jr. was arrested on suspicion of first-degree assault, first-degree property damage, unlawful use of a weapon and child endangerment.
Sammy Jackson admitted to firing a gun in each shooting and getting the weapon from Reed, according to the probable cause statements.
The suspects were booked into the Callaway County Jail without bond pending a court hearing, the police department said in a news release.
