A newly released video shows the moment an estranged husband fired eight rounds from a pistol at a romantic rival outside a Gainesville apartment at close range, hitting his target once in the leg as the gunman’s wife shouted, “Why would you do that?”
In the 17-second video, Julius Lee Caldwell, 30, of Lithia Springs, Georgia, fired three shots in fast succession from about 8 feet away then ran toward his target and skipped in the air toward him as he fired at least five more times. The man was shot once in the leg. A postal carrier’s truck driving through the parking lot sped away.
Gainesville has wrestled with a serious and persistent gun violence problem for years – and the numbers of residential and commercial surveillance cameras have been climbing – but it’s still rare for a shooting such as this one in 2022 to be captured on video and publicly seen…