Bay City man gets prison time in shooting of Georgia man who had shot him

BAY CITY, MI — A Bay Metropolis man has been despatched to jail for taking pictures a Georgia man in his face, a person who had allegedly shot him many years earlier.

Tannon C. Bell, 51, on April 11 appeared earlier than Bay County Circuit Decide Joseph Ok. Sheeran and pleaded responsible to single counts of felony firearm and felon in possession of a firearm. In trade, the prosecution agreed to dismiss a second rely of felony firearm and one rely of assault with intent to do nice bodily hurt lower than homicide.

Sheeran proceeded to condemn Bell on the identical listening to. He gave Bell a compulsory time period of two years on the felony firearm conviction however no time on the felon in possession rely. The choose gave Bell credit score for 316 days already served in jail.

The convictions stem from a taking pictures that occurred at Bell’s home within the 600 block of eleventh Avenue on Bay Metropolis’s East Aspect. Police at about 11:30 p.m. on Might 28 responded there after a neighbor known as 911 to report listening to 5 gunshots, in line with police stories contained in courtroom recordsdata.

Officers arrived to discover a 47-year-old man mendacity on his again on Bell’s porch, bleeding from his face with a big laceration over his eye. Bell was standing over him when officers approached.

The wounded man smelled closely of intoxicants and was uncooperative with police and medical personnel, saying his spouse had hit him within the face. At one level, he informed an officer to not contact him if he was a police officer, stories present.

The person was taken to McLaren Bay Area hospital for remedy.

“That is my fault, man,” Bell informed police. Bell was emotional and agitated and requested officers to handcuff him so his actions wouldn’t be misconstrued as aggressive towards them. Officers obliged and arrested Bell.

When an officer noticed dried blood on one among Bell’s fingers, Bell cried and mentioned, “I must get this DNA off my hand!” in line with officers’ stories.

Police learn Bell his Miranda rights and positioned him in a patrol automobile.

“Dude got here and confirmed as much as my home after demise threats,” Bell informed police within the patrol automobile. “I’ve been hanging out with him all day. I requested him to go away. He was threatening to do one thing and that occurred.”

Bell later mentioned he had been consuming and chaperoning a celebration for his children. There have been two minor teenagers on the home when the incident occurred, one being Bell’s son and the opposite a buddy of his son, stories present.

At police headquarters, Bell declined to be interviewed additional.

Police searched the world and located a automobile parked throughout the road belonging to the Georgia man’s spouse that seemingly had one among its home windows shattered from a potential gunshot. Additionally they discovered a Taurus G2C 9mm handgun loaded with 10 bullets in Bell’s entrance yard. The gun was registered to a distinct Bay Metropolis resident, data present.

McLaren’s emergency room employees later informed police the sufferer had suffered a single gunshot wound to his head. The bullet fragmented inside the person’s head and didn’t exit.

Medical doctors additionally discovered bullet fragments within the man’s stomach.

“We imagine he swallowed a few of these fragments,” a doctor informed police, in line with their stories.

Medical doctors carried out surgical procedure on the person however had been unable to take away the fragments from his cranium. In consequence, he was transferred to the College of Michigan Hospital in Ann Arbor for extra remedy.

Officers interviewed Bell’s girlfriend, who mentioned she arrived on the home to see Bell arguing with the Georgia man on the porch. The opposite man was getting aggressive and saved getting in Bell’s face as Bell requested him to go away, the girlfriend informed police.

At one level, the Georgian threatened to shoot up the home and chest-bumped Bell, the girlfriend mentioned. Bell then drew a handgun and pointed it on the different man.

The Georgian pushed Bell and the gun fired, the girlfriend mentioned. She added that the Georgian had shot Bell 20 years beforehand, police stories present.

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