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By TYLER RALEY | Staff Writer

PELL CITY – A Harpersville man has been arrested and charged with multiple counts of attempted murder, assault and discharging of a gun following an incident in Pell City.

Ethan Crawford, age 29 of Harpersville, was arrested and booked into the St. Clair County Jail on Thursday, June 26 on three counts of attempted murder, one count of assault in the first degree and three counts of discharging a gun into an occupied building, with a bond set at $300,000.

The Pell City Police Department responded to a call on Wednesday, June 25 at 9:17 p.m. from a Sonic Drive-In along U.S. Highway 231 that reported a road-rage shooting happening approximately a half-mile away from the restaurant.

Officers arrived at the scene to find a driver of a vehicle with a gunshot wound to the leg after multiple shots were fired into the vehicle by a suspect in a separate vehicle that later fled the scene along Hwy 231 southbound.

The shots were also found to have come close to hitting the shooting victim’s 5-year-old son, who was sitting in a car seat in the back of the vehicle at the time of the incident.

Following an investigation by the PCPD, law enforcement was able to identify Crawford as the alleged shooter that fled the scene.

The next day, law enforcement carried out an arrest warrant on Crawford and booked him into the St. Clair County Jail at approximately 6:16 p.m.