Holt, Alabama

From the Tuscaloosa News of July 23, 2005

Ongoing argument in Holt ends with one person shot

A grand jury will decide whether a father who shot his son’s attacker Friday morning should face charges.

Lt. Loyd Baker, commander of the Tuscaloosa County Metro Homicide Unit, said a 54-year-old man shot Tuscaloosa resident Markeith D. Lucious, 19, during a 9 a.m. scuffle at the man’s Keene Drive residence.

Lucious was struggling in the yard with Kevin Ray Pierce, 25, who lives with his father in the Keene Drive mobile home park.

Baker said the father fired two shots from a .22-caliber handgun. One bullet struck Lucious in the hand and he was taken to DCH Regional Medical Center for treatment of the non-life threatening injury.

A hospital spokesman said Lucious was treated and released by Friday afternoon.

While no one has been charged in this incident, Pierce was taken into custody by Tuscaloosa County deputies on an unrelated charge.

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