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On Thursday afternoon, Aug. 1, Davie’s 911 communications center started getting calls about shots being fired along Valley and Yadkinville roads in Mocksville.

Deputies responded, and while there, were called to a traffic accident on I-40 east of town that included a truck driver who had been shot.

“Deputies learned from witnesses that resulted in a search for a green Chevrolet Suburban that may have been involved in the incident,” said Davie Sheriff J.D. Hartman.

Witnesses said the suspect vehicle drove towards Winston-Salem and soon after, Winston-Salem Police Department officers had located the vehicle and driver in the parking lot of an Outback Steakhouse on Highland Oaks Drive. They held the suspect until Davie officers arrived.

The truck driver was taken to the hospital with gunshot wounds to the head and left shoulder. His condition was not available.

Deputies, Hartman said, located several shell casings along Yadkinville Road.

“It appears the suspect drove through Mocksville firing a handgun and then traveled I-40 eastbound from the Hwy. 601 exit,” Hartman reported. “The suspect then fired rounds and struck a driver and truck.”

John Franklin Barrow Jr., 41, was charged with discharging a firearm into an occupied vehicle and attempted murder. Additional charges are possible. Hartman said that Barrow lives in Winston-Salem, but previously lived on Whetstone Drive near Mocksville.

“We still have not located anything in the city that was hit, so we are thinking he was just shooting into the air,” Hartman said. He’s refused to speak with us. This case is actively under investigation,” Hartman said.

Anyone with information on any of the incidents is asked to call the sheriff’s office at 336-751-6238 or submit a tip at www.dcsonc.com or through the Davie County Sheriff’s Office App.