Sunday shooting victim in ICU

Published 2:03 pm Monday, May 9, 2016

MOULTRIE, Ga. — A Moultrie man was in a hospital intensive care unit on Monday as he recovered from a bullet wound he reportedly suffered Sunday afternoon in Southwest Moultrie.

Floyd Lewis Collins told police that he was walking at about 1:45 p.m. in the 400 block of 11th Street Southwest when he was shot. Police were called to Colquitt Regional Medical Center after Collins reported to hospital staff that he was an assault victim.

“He said he was on the sidewalk heading north,” Moultrie Police Department Inv. Tonero Bender said. “He said he heard a pop, then felt some pain in his back. He said he called his cousin. (The report) doesn’t say whether he shouted for his cousin or called his cousin on the phone.”

Collins had a single gunshot wound, with the bullet entering his right shoulder blade in his back and traveling to his left rib cage, where the bullet lodged. He was taken to surgery and afterward was unable to communicate with an investigator who had arrived, Bender said.

Earlier he had given patrol officers the basic story.

“They did a sweep of the area” where Collins reported being shot, Bender said. “They couldn’t locate any evidence of where a crime scene could be. He said he doesn’t know anyone who would have a problem with him.”

Tonero asked anyone with information about the shooting to call the Criminal Investigative Division at (229) 890-5500.

Collins was treated and admitted and was in the intensive care unit on Monday afternoon, a Colquitt Regional Medical Center spokeswoman said.