Video above: Bond set for Baldwin County murder suspect
UPDATE (3:30 p.m.): Gunfire erupted during an argument between neighbors early this morning in Elberta, leaving one person dead, and another charged with murder.
Here’s what we know so far:
- Baldwin County sheriff’s investigators say the shooting happened in the wee hours of Friday morning on Sandy Creek Drive between Elberta and Foley.
- An argument between 45-year-old Paul Maxwell, Jr. and his neighbor across the street, 40-year-old Lee Douglas, ended in gunfire.
- Hours afterward, Maxwell stood before a judge for a bond hearing, charged with murder.
- Douglas was shot multiple times; his wife and son were inside the home at the time of the shooting.
- Douglas appears to have been unarmed at the time of the shooting.
- Investigators have not revealed what the argument was about or the motive for the shooting.
- Bond was set at $200,000, with the conditions that if released, Maxwell would have to wear an ankle monitor, stay away from guns and Douglas’s family, and he cannot go back home and will have to find another place to live for now.
- That murder charge carries with it a sentence of 20 years to life in prison if convicted.
“They were known to each other, they were friends, and they were hanging out last night,” Baldwin County Assistant District Attorney Patrick Doggett said…