SAVANNAH, GA (May 18, 2015) A Savannah woman has been arrested and charged in the shooting of a Savannah man in the Edgemere neighborhood last Wednesday night.
Shakerra Martrney Heyward, 25, of the 1300 block of Duval Street in the Winter Gardens neighborhood was arrested by Islands Precinct patrol officers investigating an unrelated incident in her neighborhood about 4 a.m. Sunday.
She has been charged with five counts of aggravated assault and possession of a firearm in commission of a crime after the shooting of Daryl Jackson, 38, on the 1300 block of East 54th Street last Wednesday.
He was treated at the scene after a female in a large group of people fired from a porch across the street towards him and a small group standing beside Jackson’s house. The bullet grazed his finger and struck his house.
Patrol units had been dispatched to a complaint of a woman with a gun at 8:50 p.m. when the call was upgraded to a shooting.
Heyward has been arrested eight times since 2010 by Metro Police, including three charges of violation of probation.
Metro Violent Crimes detectives continue to investigate the shooting incident.
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