Teen arrested following shooting of woman at Columbia apartment complex
A teenager has been arrested in connection with a shooting Tuesday that seriously injured a woman inside of the Gable Oaks Apartments in Columbia.
Johnadrian A. Canty Jr. was charged with assault and battery of a high and aggravated nature, accessory after the fact of a felony, breach of peace, criminal conspiracy and discharging a firearm into a dwelling.
Canty, 18, is accused of being inside a vehicle at the time of the shooting, according to a statement released by the Columbia Police Department.
He is currently being held at the Alvin S. Glenn Detention Center. No information about his bond has been made available.
“Additional arrests are pending,” according to a statement from the Columbia Police Department.
A 28-year-old woman was hospitalized Tuesday following a shooting at the apartment complex, the Columbia Police Department said.
The shooting happened at about 1 p.m. at Gables, 901 Colleton St., according to police. That’s in the area between U.S. 21/North Main Street and U.S. 321 Fairfield Road, not far from the Columbia College campus.
The woman was taken to an area hospital where she underwent surgery, according to police. Further information on her condition was not available.
No other injuries were reported.
The woman was injured inside her home, police said. “At this time, it is not believed that the victim was the intended target,” the Columbia Police Department said in a statement. Ballistics evidence was recovered from the scene and investigators spoke to witnesses, according the a statement.
Anyone with information on the shooting is asked to call CrimeStoppers at 888-CRIME-SC or submit an online tip.
Recent shootings at the Gable Oaks Apartments
There have been other violent incidents reported at the apartment complex.
In March 2022, three people, including brothers and a teenager, were arrested on multiple charges including attempted murder, after a shooting at the Gable Oaks Apartments, police said. No injuries were reported, but officers found property damage to a few apartments and a vehicle.
On July 20, 2020, a 23-year-old man found in a vehicle at the apartment complex had been killed in a shooting, police said.
About a week earlier, on July 14, a woman was charged with murder after killing a 29-year-old man in a domestic-related shooting at the apartment complex, police said.
In January 2020, a 22-year-old man was shot and killed at the Gable Oaks Apartments in what police called an “isolated drug-related incident.”
In June 2016, a man wanted for a shooting at another location barricaded himself inside an apartment at the complex for two hours when Columbia police officers, Richland County sheriff’s deputies and SLED agents attempted to serve him with a warrant and the SWAT team was called to the scene.
Prior to these incidents, the apartment complex was where three people were killed in the span of three months in 2007 and 2008.
Additionally, multiple tenants have been displaced by separate fires at the apartment complex in the past decade.
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This story was originally published January 4, 2023 at 12:41 PM.
