Columbus police: Mother, son arrested after he fired shots at neighbor’s car, stabbed tires

A man shot his neighbor’s vehicle and punctured his tires after the man asked him to move his car, according to testimony Monday morning in Columbus Recorder’s Court.

Raheem McClam, 18, pleaded not guilty to reckless conduct with a weapon, obstruction, discharging a firearm in the city and second-degree damage to property. He was sentenced to 10 days in the Muscogee County Jail on the discharging a firearm charge.

Judge Julius Hunter granted him bonds totaling $500 on the remaining charges. The case was bound over to State Court.

Officer Sonny Wiseman with the Columbus Police Department said he was called to the 5000 block of Shirley Ann Drive around 1:55 p.m. Sunday to investigate a shooting.

The victim said he told McClam to move the vehicle parked in his driveway. He said that’s when the defendant became angry.

He allegedly fired several shots through the windshield of the victim’s 1990 Cadillac Eldorado as the man stood in the front yard. No one was harmed, but the windshield had bullet holes in it.

Wiseman said the defendant also punctured two of the victim’s tires with a knife, causing $1,000 worth of damage to the vehicle. He ran back into his Shirley Ann Drive home after the incident, witnesses told authorities.

With their weapons drawn, police knocked on all the doors of the residence and announced their presence for 45 minutes with no answer.

Wiseman said he was leaving when Angela McClam, the mother of the alleged shooter, came out of the residence with her son.

Raheem McClam told police that the victim hit him in the back of the head with a bat and he never fired shots. Police said they checked the back of the defendant’s neck, but found no injuries that indicated he was struck with a bat.

Police said Angela McClam also said the neighbor struck her son with a bat, but she refused to give police any additional information. She was charged with obstruction and transported to the Muscogee County Jail with her son.

McClam was on the way to the jail when she allegedly said her family didn’t leave the residence, because “white officers had their weapons drawn and innocent black men were being killed by white officers.”

She was released from the jail after posting bond. Her case was also bound over to State Court.

This story was originally published June 5, 2017 at 3:04 PM with the headline "Columbus police: Mother, son arrested after he fired shots at neighbor’s car, stabbed tires."