Three arrested in Eastpoint shooting

Three 20-year-old men, all from Eastpoint, have been arrested and charged in shooting incident earlier this month between two trucks traveling along Twin Lakes Road in Eastpoint.

According to a release from the Franklin County Sheriff's Office, on Sunday evening, Feb. 7 around 10 p.m., an altercation developed between several individuals riding in two vehicles along Twin Lakes Road.

Several shots were fired from a .22 caliber semi-automatic rifle, a 12-gauge shotgun, and a CO2 pellet pistol.

During a vehicle chase, an individual, riding in a red Toyota Tundra, fired a pellet pistol, striking the passenger side of a blue Toyota Tundra truck. Hit by a pellet was truck passenger Paul Zachary Sanders, who suffered a minor, superifical injury to the leg.

A shot from a 12-gauge shotgun was fired by an individual in the blue truck, striking the tailgate of the red truck, which was occupied by seven individuals. No injuries were reported from this shot.

Franklin County Sheriff's Office investigators have arrested and charged Sanders, Jordan Kyle Richards, and Johnny Alan Turner, with one count each of shooting into an occupied vehicle, and for aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.

An unnamed juvenile was arrested and charged with one count of shooting into an unoccupied vehicle, and aggravated battery with a deadly weapon.