Two Morrow residents are in custody and others are being sought by Fairburn Police in a Sunday night shooting that resulted in two injuries after approximately 100 shots were fired into a home at 915 Fellowship Road. Nine people were in the home at the time of the shooting.

Seventeen year-old Christopher Yem, of Morrow, was arrested Monday on preliminary charges of aggravated assault, according to Chief Charles Long. The second arrest in the incident, that of a 16 year-old male, also of Morrow, came Tuesday, Long said. Both of those arrested had previously lived in Fairburn. Arrests of other juveniles involved in the incident are pending, Long said.

Fairburn Police were dispatched to the Fellowship Road residence in Trotter’s Farm subdivision March 18 at 10:49 p.m., finding that multiple gunshots had been fired into the residence. Two of the residents, ages 17 and 20, had been struck. A 20 year-old was struck in the lower leg while a 17 year-old was shot in the arm. There were seven other people present in the house at the time of the shooting, including several children, according to reports. The victims were treated at Grady Hospital.

Eyewitnesses at the scene told officers that four or five Asian males arrived at the residence, where they exited a four-door sedan and a minivan and began firing, reports said. Long said several weapons were used in the shooting. Investigators at the scene recovered rounds from a 7.62x39mm assault-type rifle along with rounds from .380, 9mm and .40-caliber handguns and a 13-guage shotgun, he said. In all, approximately 100 shots were fired into the two-story home, Long said.

The home Monday morning showed clear evidence of the incident, with bullet holes covering the exterior walls and windows of the house and penetrating some of the home’s interior walls. Investigators found a single bullet some distance away, having apparently passed through the 915 Fellowship Road residence, becoming lodged in an exterior wall of the house directly behind it.

Long said preliminary reports suggest that the shooters are known to the victims and that at least one of the victims might have had an altercation with the shooters at the Union City Wal-mart sometime the previous day.

Investigators said Wednesday that more arrests are pending. The individuals in custody are cooperating with police in their effort to charge the others involved in the shooting, investigators said.

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