Crime & Safety
Two High Schoolers Arrested in BB-Gun Incidents
Two young men from Athens Christian charged with various Eastside shootings.
Car windows were shattered, drivers were terrorized, pedestrians were shot with BB's and people on the Eastside of Athens were apprehensive about going outside.
Until Friday, when with aggravated assault in a series of shootings with a BB gun. According to a story in the Athens Banner Herald, the two were booked into the Clarke County Jail on Friday morning.
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Charged were 18-year-old Charles Anthony Horton of Twin Creek Road in Winterville and Joshua Grey Carney, 17, of Township Lane in Athens. Both are seniors at .
Police had offered a $1,000 reward for information leading to the arrest in the incidents. involving someone shooting a BB gun over about week on the Eastside of Athens.
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