MACON, Ga. — A terrifying situation brought deputies racing to a 90-year-old woman’s west Macon home early Thursday. More than 30 bullets hit the home on Key Street just after midnight.
Marine Hodges lives alone. Her son Fred Hodges came down from Nashville for Christmas, but now he says he's not leaving until he's sure his mother will be safe.
"There's a lot going on in this head about how I'm going to protect myself and my mother," he said.
They woke up to gunfire going through their home Thursday morning. Someone shot three bullets through his mother's front door, 22 bullets through the front left window, and more further inside the home.
"Glass is everywhere. I've cleaned some-- most of it up," Hodges said.
He's relieved to have not been hit, but is he angry at whoever did this to his mother's home. This is the county's second residential shooting of the week.
“I’m just going to tell you -- I’m pissed. What else are you going to say? I ain’t feeling good about this, but I ain’t gonna let it go either,” he said. “I’m paying attention to what’s going on."
Maj. Chris Patterson with the Bibb County Sheriff's Office says no one was hurt.
"We don't want this. The sheriff's office and the community does not want this activity, and we care," said Patterson.
"I am blessed to be standing here right now, because had I gone to the bathroom or the refrigerator, I would've been shot. I am blessed to be here. Mom's here. I am OK with that. We are going to make it," Hodges said.
According to the sheriff’s office, this shooting is not related to the one earlier in the week where someone fired into a home hitting a 17-year-old girl.
If you have any information on either shooting, you can call Macon Regional Crimestoppers at 1-877-68CRIME or the sheriff's office at 478-751-7500.