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Two Arrested After Athens Drive-By Shooting

1,102 views · Published 17 December 2012 · 1:46 · Indexed 12 November 2026

Channel: WTVC NewsChannel 9 · 2012 · News & Politics

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By Jerry Askin  Good news for a family who survived a drive-by shooting Tuesday night in Athens, Tennessee. No one was injured, but the family describes the experience as frightening.Darnell Alloway showed us the bullets that came ripping through his Athens home Tuesday night. He and his two small children were sitting in the living room when it all happened."I grabbed my daughter, I told Brenda, I said get down get down they shooting at the house," says Alloway.Police say the men responsible for the shooting are Jordan Jackson and Cory Ferguson.Brenda is Darnell's friend.  According to her, the two guys were shooting at the home to get back at her daughter's finance Brent,  But, he wasn't home when it happened. "Brent hadn't done anything to these people. He was down there getting gas about a month or so and they sliced his arm and almost killed him and be almost bled to death and they arrested the dude day before yesterday and he got out of jail yesterday and did this," says Brenda Hale."We were just sitting here talking - wasn't anyone expecting this to go on. I had just given my kid a bath and stuff," says Darnell Alloway.Police say after the drive-by shooting, the suspects drove here to King Street and ended at this house and were taken into custody."From what we understand, Jordan was he did the shooting, Cory was just with him. They do things together and this is one of the things they were doing," says Captain Frank Horning.But, for Darnell Alloway and his family. He says there's a better way to handle this. "If you feel like you've got a problem with us.. Just come see us, don't bring your pistols out, put your hands up, because that's what men do," says Alloway.Both Jackson and Ferguson will be arraigned in court Thursday morning.Both men remain in the McMinn County Jail.

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