Around midnight on Friday, the Athens-Clarke County Police Department responded to reports of a shooting on Elkview Drive in Athens, where a 28-year-old man had been shot in the leg.
According to the ACCPD’s incident report, Bernabe Hernandez, 28, was shot in the leg on the front lawn of his home. Witnesses said they saw a gray sedan flee the scene just after Hernandez was shot, and that one of the people in the vehicle was someone Hernandez knew.
That person, Alexis Alba of Commerce, is now a suspect in the shooting. The ACCPD says Hernandez received a text from the Alba asking him to come outside before he was shot.
Hernandez was transported to Piedmont Athens Regional Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, where he is expected to recover.
The investigation into Friday’s events is ongoing. Anyone with information regarding the incident is encouraged to contact Sergeant Dickson at 762-400-7070 or via email at [email protected].
