At 4:39 PM on Tuesday, June 28, 2022, Statesboro Police Department (SPD) officers were dispatched to a shots fired call in Park Place Apartments on Lanier Drive.
Upon arrival, officers and detectives secured the scene and discovered no one injured.
Subsequent investigation linked the exchange of gunfire to an earlier domestic dispute at another location.
The parties related to the participants in the domestic dispute chose to confront one another in Park Place using firearms.
Subsequent searches of two different locations led to the arrest of three individuals for the exchange of gunfire and to the recovery of four firearms. The defendants are as follows:
Frederick Watkins (50, Somerset Townhomes, Statesboro): 1 count Aggravated
Assault, 1 count Possession of a Firearm during the Commission of a Crime, 1
count of Reckless Conduct, 1 count of Battery-Family Violence
Victor Bolden (20, Park Place Apartments, Statesboro): 1 count Aggravated
Assault, 1 count Possession of a Firearm during the Commission of a Crime, 1
count Terroristic Threats, and 1 count of Reckless Conduct
Dakwan Marshall (21, Park Place Apartments, Statesboro): 1 count Aggravated
Assault, 1 count Possession of a Firearm during the Commission of a Crime, 1
count of Reckless Conduct
All parties were booked into the Bulloch County Jail pending further judicial action.
Anyone with information on this case should contact Captain Jared Akins at 912-764-9911 or submit an anonymous tip to tips@statesboroga.gov.