In three days time, two Macon Countians were sent to Vanderbilt University Medical Center with shotgun wounds inflicted by either a neighbor or relative, according to arrest reports filed at the Sheriff's Office.

A shooting on B.J. Lane, near Gum Springs, sent one critically injured victim to Vanderbilt, by Air Evac, with one 4/10 shotgun wound to the lower abdomen. The shooting occurred about 8 p.m. on Monday night.

Chris Stafford, of 70 B.J. Lane, remains in critical but stable condition at Vanderbilt. Jesse Beasley Bowman, of 88 B.J. Lane, was detained for questioning.

According to Detective Bill Cothron, the two men had an altercation over some dogs. Bowman had the shotgun in his lap during the argument; there was a struggle over the gun; and Stafford ended up in a helicopter headed for Vandy.

Just two days earlier, Roger Wayne Coulter was sent to Vanderbilt for surgery after allegedly being shot by his brother, Michael Joe Coulter.

On Saturday, September 6, Sheriff Gammons and Deputy Anthony Warner were dispatched to a location on Highway 52, where they found Roger Coulter with a shotgun wound to his right leg. Coulter said that his brother had shot him in the leg.

Upon questioning, Michael Coulter told Gammons that he had, indeed shot his brother. Gammons, assisted by Clay County deputies, found a sawed off, 20 gauge shotgun at Michael Coulter's Jenkins Village Circle residence in Clay County. Coulter admitted to using the gun in the shooting.

Michael Coulter was taken to the Macon County Jail, charged with attempted criminal homicide, and placed under a $25,000 bail. Coulter is scheduled to appear in general sessions court on September 24.