A Columbus teen is in the Lowndes County Adult Detention Center after officers with the U.S. Marshal’s Fugitive Task Force arrested him Wednesday for a November shooting in Columbus.
Kobe Barker, 18, of 539 Belle Circle, was charged with aggravated assault for allegedly shooting a man in the arm in November, according to a press release from the Columbus Police Department.
Officers with the CPD responded to a call about the shooting on the 500 block of 17th Street South on Nov. 12, 2016. The victim was taken to Baptist Memorial Hospital-Golden Triangle with non life-threatening injuries.
Barker has been charged with aggravated assault twice previously, once in June 2015 when he was accused of shooting into Juvenile Detention Center on College Street and again in March last year when he allegedly shot at a man riding a bicycle near the intersection of Fourth Street South and 15th Avenue South.
Neither of those previous cases have gone before a grand jury.
Barker’s bond for the most recent charge has not been set.
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