CLEMMONS, N.C. — Deputies charged a man with murder after they said he fired a gun toward the ceiling of his apartment, hitting a woman in the unit above him.
It happened at an apartment complex on Hawk Ridge Drive in Clemmons. Forsyth County Sheriff's Office said they found a woman dead in her third-floor apartment.
Investigators said a second-floor tenant, 20-year-old A'Monte Zariq Jones, fired his gun at the ceiling during a domestic fight. They said the woman in the upstairs unit was hit and died from her injuries.
Jones was arrested and charged with murder, felony discharging a firearm within an enclosure and felony discharging a weapon into an occupied dwelling.
Deputies said this was not a random act of violence.
Jones is in the Forsyth County Jail with no bond allowed.
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