COLONIAL HEIGHTS, Va. — “It could have went any way real quick, just one pull of the trigger,” James Meadows said about a recent violent altercation in his Colonial Heights scrap metal and pawn shop Cal’s.
“You think about it. I got a woman behind me with a gun, a man in front of me with a gun, I got a gun,” he said.
Meadows said he was closing up shop for the day on the afternoon of Friday, February 2 , when he asked a new employee to move his truck to the front of the business.
When Warren Darnell Fields Jr. returned to the building, Meadows said his new employee bumped into him.
“When he did, I pushed him away and then he started swinging and it was on from there,” Meadows said.
During the altercation, Meadows said Fields’ mother got behind him.
“The next thing I know, I’m getting hit in the head with another gun from somebody I don’t know,” Meadows said.
WTVRThen shots were fired.
“I got shot twice and it was over,” Meadows said. “They shot me through my upper thigh. Just thank the Good Lord I’m OK.”