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    Mobile Police arrest suspect in Fern Valley Road shooting

    By Summer Poole,

    23 days ago

    MOBILE, Ala. ( W K RG ) — A local man was arrested Thursday in connection with a Wednesday morning shooting on Fern Valley Road, according to the Mobile Police Department.

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    33-year-old Anthony Mikail Benjamin of Mobile was arrested and charged with first-degree assault and discharging a gun into an occupied vehicle.

    https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=2XZERh_0uG2z2KU00
    A mugshot of Anthony Benjamin (Mobile County Sheriff’s Office).

    According to an MPD news release, officers were called to the 5800 block of Fern Valley Road around 1 a.m. July 3 for a report of a shooting.

    When officers arrived, they found a man with a gunshot wound and took him to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, according to the release.

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    Officers said they found that the victim had been in an argument with a known person before he was shot.

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