Drive-by shooting suspect arrested:Fisk, 26, charged with attempted murder
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The suspect, Deonray J. Fisk, 26, is charged with attempted murder and is being held under $800,000 bond awaiting arraignment in General Sessions Court Tuesday. In addition to his current charge, he is also the prime suspect in a drive-by shooting last Wednesday in which the home of a couple of elderly women was strafed by bullets. The Spring Valley home is located near the home where Fisk was living.
Fisk, who had recently served time in the penitentiary for robbery, has not confessed to the crime, but instead, said he would be willing to ‘take responsibility for the shootings.”
‘He didn’t seem to value their (the drive-by victims’) lives very much,” said Sheriff Jackie Matheny of their talks with Fisk.
According to Sheriff Matheny, Fisk exchanged words with three Hispanic males at Wal-Mart on the evening of Dec. 22. The reason for the confrontation is unclear. It was shortly after the exchange that the men went back to their vehicle and headed down Sparta Highway toward their home in White County with Fisk, unknown to them, following them in his vehicle.
As they approached the Campaign-area on the four-lane part of Highway 70, lawmen say Fisk pulled alongside the men, rolled down his window and opened fire, strafing the car with four shots. One of the bullets found its mark, hitting David Estrada in the upper right hip. Estrada was treated for the noncritical wound at White County Hospital.
It was while investigating the shooting that lawmen discovered the 9mm bullets used in the drive-by shooting were similar to those found outside the Spring Valley home shot into the night before, leading them to believe they had a serial drive-by shooter on their hands. Investigators suspect Fisk fired randomly at the house on Spring Valley Road as they can discover no problem he had with the residents there, one of whom is in her 90s.
According to Matheny, Fisk was an early suspect in the drive-by shooting, and would later help implicate himself in the crime.
Specifically, lawmen went to a home on Lowery Lane where Fisk was a guest after they received complaints of shots being fired.
When they arrived, deputies were told Fisk was shooting a gun off the porch. The 9mm gun used to fire the shots was then found inside the house, the same gun lawmen suspect will be confirmed, following ballistics comparisons, as the same gun used to wound Estrada and the same gun used to shoot at the Spring Valley house. In addition to the gun linking him to the shooting, Fisk also was in possession of a white Crown Victoria, the same vehicle from which the shots were fired which wounded Estrada. Lawmen also say Fisk fits the physical description of the person who fired the shots on Sparta Highway.
While Fisk is the suspected shooter, there could be more arrests forthcoming in the case.