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Suspects arrested in Monday shooting
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Hinesville police have arrested two people in connection with a shooting Monday afternoon.

Jacori Smith, 19, and Antonia Adams, 27, are being charged in connection with a shooting February 20 that wounded two people at a South Main Street Extension mobile home.

Detectives served search warrants in Liberty County with the assistance of the Liberty County Sheriff’s Office Special Reaction Team. During the search warrant the firearm used during the crime was recovered, according to the HPD.

Smith and Adams are being held at the Liberty County Jail, awaiting a first appearance hearing before a Liberty County Magistrate Judge.

The two victims were shot following an altercation at a mobile home park in Hinesville shortly before 2 p.m. Monday.
HPD officers were dispatched to the mobile home located on the 1300 block of South Main Street. When officers arrived, they discovered the two victims suffering from gunshot wounds.

Assistant HPD Chief Tracey Howard said one victim sustained a wound to his head, and another was shot in the buttocks. 

Howard said the male victim was outside his mobile home when an assailant shot at him, grazing the victim’s head. The woman who was shot was inside the home when a stray bullet went through the exterior of the home and embedded itself in her buttock. 

Both were transported by ambulance to Memorial Health University Medical Center in Savannah where they received treatment for their wounds. They have been released from the hospital.

Chief of Detectives William Oberlander said this was not a random shooting, and that the couple and the gunman were acquainted with each other.