Two killed in Selma apartment shooting; who fired remains unclear

Two people died following the shooting, Selma police confirmed to WSFA. Both were pronounced dead at Vaughan Regional Medical Center after reaching the hospital by different means: one by ambulance, the other in a private vehicle. Their names remained unreleased in the station’s Saturday-afternoon account.⁠1

The report establishes the fatal outcome and part of the emergency response. It does not yet explain how the two victims were connected, what led to the gunfire or who was responsible. For residents, the missing information is consequential: the available account contains no verified assessment of an ongoing threat.⁠1

Officers responded around 8 a.m. to Chanticleer Apartments in the 1200 block of Woodrow Avenue. That time describes the police response, not a separately established moment when the shots were fired. The location is similarly limited: the report identifies the complex and street block, but not a particular apartment, unit or more precise shooting site.⁠1

Police found one gunshot victim inside a vehicle. An ambulance took that person to Vaughan Regional Medical Center. Officers also learned that a second victim had arrived at the hospital’s emergency room in a private vehicle. Both were subsequently pronounced dead there, according to WSFA’s account. The report does not describe either person being pronounced dead at the apartment complex.⁠1

Those separate routes to the hospital leave an incomplete picture of the response. The account does not identify who drove the second victim or explain the circumstances of that journey. Nor does it establish that the vehicle where officers found the first victim was the vehicle used to transport the second. The two details cannot safely be joined into a single sequence.⁠1

The victims’ ages, relationship to each other and connection to Chanticleer Apartments have not been established in the available information. Describing the shooting’s location does not establish that either person lived there, and the reported circumstances do not establish either victim’s role in the events before police arrived.⁠1

Investigators were processing the apartment-complex scene and reviewing surveillance footage from the surrounding area. No findings from that review were included in the Saturday-afternoon report. It is not established whether any camera captured the shooting itself, rather than activity nearby or before or after it.⁠1

That distinction matters. A review of footage is an investigative step, not an announced finding. Until investigators describe what it shows, it cannot be treated as an explanation of the gunfire or evidence identifying who fired.

The available incident account comes from WSFA’s reporting of Selma police’s findings. A direct police statement and independent confirmation of the complete account were not located. That limits how fully the circumstances can be described; it does not turn the gaps into competing versions of what happened.

There is no verified suspect description, arrest information or motive in the available account. But missing information is not an affirmative police finding. It would be inaccurate to turn that silence into a claim that investigators have no suspect, that no arrest has occurred or that the shooting remains wholly unexplained to police.⁠1

The same restraint applies to safety. Nothing available supports declaring the area safe, but neither does it support warning that a gunman remains at large. The next meaningful developments would be identification of the people killed and a police explanation of who fired, whether anyone faces charges and whether residents need to take precautions. For now, two deaths are established; responsibility and the implications for the surrounding community remain unresolved.