Search on in shootings

July 22, 1997

By LISA GRAYBEAL

Staff Writer, Chambersburg

CHAMBERSBURG, Pa. - Borough police were still looking for suspects Monday in drive-by shootings the day before that wounded two Chambersburg men and struck a nearby house.

The victims in the drive-by shooting were standing with a group of people on West South Street across from the Laurel Lodge IBPOE at about 2:08 a.m., police said. A vehicle with an undetermined number of occupants crossed over the railroad tracks heading east and began firing into the group, police said.

Damon L. Bryant, 20, of 40 S. Main St. was shot in his left leg, shattering the femur, police said. He was in satisfactory condition at York Hospital in York, Pa., on Monday afternoon.

Charles D. Green, 22, of 75 W. South St., was listed in satisfactory condition at Chambersburg Hospital after he was struck in the chest and the left wrist, police said.

The vehicle fled east on South Street and then south on Black Avenue, police said. No description of the vehicle was available.

Police said several rounds were fired but they would not say from what kind of weapon.

Around the same time, a nearby home at 30 W. South St. was hit by a bullet fired by someone on foot, police said.

The same house, owned by Gwenetta Welch, 40, was then hit by three bullets fired from a vehicle at 2:21 a.m., police said.

Police said they don't know if the shootings are related or if the shots that hit the house were intentional.

In another shooting less than 24 hours earlier, police are still looking for Anthony L. Jackson, 28, of no fixed address, in connection with the wounding of Joseph Brumfield, 24, of 179 S. Second St. Brumfield was shot in the forehead with a small-caliber handgun at 3:24 a.m. Saturday.

Brumfield was treated at Chambersburg Hospital and released.

Police have issued an arrest warrant for Jackson who is charged with attempted homicide and aggravated assault.

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