Newbern man shot by assailant

Friday, March 28, 2008

A Newbern man was wounded by a gunshot shortly after midnight on Friday.

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A crowd of onlookers gather outside the residence where the shooting occurred.
According to witnesses and preliminary work by investigators, Aundra Vernal Gilton, 35, 635 Jones St., was shot once in the right leg while he was in the residence by an assailant who opened the front door and fired the shot from a handgun.

Gilton and other witnesses inside the residence did not know the identity of the suspected shooter, said police.

Gilton was transported by ambulance to Dyersburg Regional Medical Center, where he was treated for the injury.

The shooting is the second in Newbern in little more than a month. On Feb. 27, three teenagers were charged with the shooting death of 20-year-old expectant mother Tamara Brown of 401 N. Grayson St.

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Welcome to the new LITTLE CHICAGO

-- Posted by beat_the _system on Fri, Mar 28, 2008, at 2:22 PM

yea newbern is notorious for organized crime these days

-- Posted by jeramy on Fri, Mar 28, 2008, at 2:26 PM

Actually I think its unorganized crime.lol

-- Posted by beat_the _system on Fri, Mar 28, 2008, at 7:08 PM

all those people in the house and no one can identify him ,,right,,(drugs)written all over that story.

-- Posted by jc in dyersburg on Mon, Mar 31, 2008, at 3:40 PM

Jeeeesh, Newbern used to be such a nice little community. The past year Newbern has went down hill fast. Barney and Andy better keep on their toes!

-- Posted by opinionated on Wed, Apr 2, 2008, at 8:08 AM