By The Franklin Daily Journal
MORGANTOWN — Two people are facing criminal charges following a shooting last week in Morgantown.
Nicholas Robert Saunders, 19, of Elizabethtown, was charged by prosecutors Friday with attempted murder, a Level 1 felony; aggravated battery, a Level 3 felony; and two counts of pointing a firearm at another, a Level 6 felony.
Miranda D. Lawson, 19, of Morgantown, was charged with false informing, a misdemeanor, in Johnson County Superior Court 3 on Friday.
At around 8:55 p.m. Aug. 7, the Johnson County Public Safety Communications Center received a call that a person — later identified as Jerry Jones, 38, of Morgantown — had been shot multiple times at a home on the 6700 block of S. County Road 800W and those involved had already left the scene.
Johnson County Sheriff’s Office deputies, along with officers from the Trafalgar Police Department and emergency medical service personnel, treated Jones at the scene. He was later transported to IU Methodist Hospital, where he remains in stable condition.
Back in Morgantown, deputies questioned witnesses and launched an investigation that led them to different locations around central Indiana, Sheriff Duane Burgess said.
A witness told police that they were unloading a vehicle with the man when a dark blue vehicle drove by the home on three occasions honking and yelling. During the last occasion, the vehicle pulled into the driveway and two people, Saunders and Lawson, exited the car, according to a probable cause affidavit.
Saunders reportedly said “I got a gun” before opening fire at the witness and the man. Saunders and Lawson then fled the scene, the affidavit says.
For more on this story, see Tuesday’s Republic.
