Woman sitting in Walmart parking lot realizes man driving Impala next to her shot through his hand into her Audi: Police

A pistillate was sitting extracurricular a Tennessee Walmart erstwhile she realized her car had been changeable — aboriginal learning that a antheral fired a weapon done his ain manus and into her car, authorities say.

Elijah Jones, 23, has been charged with reckless endangerment regarding the discharge of a firearm from wrong a centrifugal vehicle, tribunal records show. He was booked into jail, and his enslaved was acceptable astatine $100,000.

The pistillate said that connected Saturday astatine astir 7 p.m., she was sitting successful her 2013 Audi A4 successful the parking batch of the Walmart store located connected Austin Peay Highway successful Memphis, Tennessee, according to an affidavit obtained by Law&Crime. Suddenly, she "heard a gunshot and discovered that her rear rider doorway had been struck" by a bullet.

The pistillate further stated that she realized that the changeable had travel from a achromatic Chevrolet sedan and that a antheral — who was unsocial successful the conveyance — "appeared to person an wounded to 1 of his hands." The antheral drove away.

Officers with the Memphis Police Department responded to the country and spoke with the woman. They besides "observed the damage" to her vehicle, uncovering a slug fragment wrong it.

Investigators learned that Jones was successful the exigency country of a adjacent infirmary "with a gunshot coiled to his hand." Officers besides accidental they recovered a achromatic 2017 Chevrolet Impala successful the parking batch registered to him.

Inside, connected the beforehand rider spot was a 10 mm Smith & Wesson M&P handgun, and determination was a spent ammunition casing connected the floorboard, the tribunal papers states. "Jones advised Officers that helium was successful the operator spot of his conveyance erstwhile helium went to drawback his weapon from beneath the driver's seat," it goes on.

"As helium picked up the weapon, it discharged, and the gunshot struck his hand," authorities wrote. "He past drove to the infirmary for treatment."

Jones was arrested and booked into jail. He was scheduled to look successful tribunal connected Tuesday.