A 13-year-old was shot while he slept on the couch in his grandmother’s Windsor Forest home early Saturday morning.
Just before 2:15 a.m., gunshots were fired into the single-story house in the 12400 block of Deerfield Road that backs up to Windsor Forest Elementary School.
Responding Savannah-Chatham police officers found the boy suffering from injuries to his shoulder and jaw, said Julian Miller, police spokesman. The teenager, who lives in Pooler, was expected to survive.
Investigators, as well as patrol and forensics officers, spent much of the night gathering evidence at the crime scene, Miller said.
Saturday evening, detectives and crime suppression officers in the area spoke with potential witnesses and continued searching for clues.
However, no description or information about possible suspects in the shooting was available as of Saturday night.
The incident came almost exactly a month after another teenager was shot in the Windsor Forest neighborhood.
Windsor Forest High School student Evan Colquitt, 17, died Jan. 22 after he was shot several times in front of a house in the 400 block of Sharondale Road, less than half a mile from Saturday’s shooting.
Colquit was Savannah’s second homicide victim of 2013 after 21-year-old Rebecca Foley, a student at Savannah State University, was shot to death the night before in the parking lot of the nearby Colonial Village at Marsh Cove apartment complex, in the 11400 block of White Bluff Road.
Like Saturday morning’s shooting, information about suspects in the killings of Foley and Colquitt have not been released.
Police have made two arrests connected to another January shooting in the same area of Savannah’s southside.
Ernest Patterson, 21, was arrested and charged with shooting a 25-year-old man Jan. 23 through a door at the Turtle Creek apartment complex, in the 11900 block of White Bluff.
Another man, 23-year-old Harold Edward Hodges IV, was also arrested in connection to that incident and charged with a felony count of criminal attempt at armed robbery.
Anyone with information about Saturday’s shooting or the slayings of Foley or Colquitt is asked to call CrimeStoppers at 912-234-2020 or text CRIMES (274637). In the body type, include “CStop2020” plus the tip. Tipsters remain anonymous and may qualify for a cash reward.