MACON, Ga. — The Bibb County Sheriff's Office arrested a Macon man accused of shooting at and setting fire to his neighbor's properties in his neighborhood.
51-year-old Scott Malkowski is charged with simple battery-family violence, two counts of aggravated assault, four counts of arson and possible charges pending.
The evidence of what neighbors are calling a freak incident earlier this week remains on Northridge Drive as they recover from the traumatic incident.
Tuesday night, Katina Atmore was outside her home on Northridge Dr. unloading her car with her 4-year-old daughter.
"It was Election Night, maybe about 8:45 p.m., I had someone drive up behind my car and holler some racial stuff and speed off," Atmore said. "I was thinking the person was just having a moment. I came in the house, and all of a sudden maybe 30 minutes later -- just some really loud pounding on the door."
Atmore locked the door and looked outside her window to see her neighbors' car engulfed in flames.
"When I turned my head to the left, I couldn't believe it. There was a Caucasian man, he came from around the house here and I saw him pouring the gasoline on top of my husband's Mercedes, then he poured the gasoline on top of my white car, my Honda Accord," Atmore said. "He just lit it on fire. I screamed and ran back into the house."
A police report confirms Malkowski went outside his home with a rifle and fired shots hitting neighbor's homes and cars, and setting fire to them.
The damage remains on Atmore's 3 family cars and home, along with her next-door neighbors' properties with bullet holes and destruction from flames.
Evony Davis says Malkowski was arrested in her driveway.
She says he was still setting fires as the fire department was working to extinguish fires already burning.
"For it having to be that night...and the racial slurs, you know. I have a 9-year-old daughter, she has to get therapy for this," Davis said. "She was so traumatized. But you know we're safe, we're okay."
Both Atmore and Davis agree they are relieved that no one was hurt, but don't know what their neighbor's intentions were.
"I do want to understand his intention, but he doesn't realize the lasting effects of what he has done to our families out here. We want to feel safe in our neighborhood."
13WMAZ reached to the Malkowkski family to speak on the incident, but they declined to speak.