On Monday evening a shooting downtown left one victim dead, but it created a destructive path that has hurt one more in its wake.

The Selma Police Department reported Tuesday that Darrie Dewayne Dees was arrested late Monday night and charged with shooting and killing a Selma man on the 1200 block of Alabama Avenue. Dees has been placed in the Dallas County Jail and Wednesday, District Court Judge Bob Armstrong approved a $5.275 million bond.

But the wake that resulted from his alleged shooting on Alabama Avenue, reportedly is tied to a shooting later that has left his nephew in the hospital.

Dee’s 16-year-old nephew, Kevin Harris, was shot in the knee while at his grandmother’s house in an incident that police are still investigating, but believe it to be connected with the downtown shooting.

Harris’ mother, and the sister of the murder suspect, Tina Shields, said she received a call from a friend and they told her to rush to her mother’s house, because “something bad was about to happen.”

“They said ‘go check on your mom! Go check on your mom! They are going to go shoot your mom’s house up,’” Shields said.

Following the call, Shields and other members of her family rushed to the house on King Street. Upon entering her mother’s house, shots rang out.

“Shots were just going off everywhere,” Shields said. “When I got there, and as soon as I walked in the door, my [son] was behind me and he was behind my daughter. My husband was still out there in the truck. It looked like there were four or five of them and one guy came up and the other stayed back and they just started shooting.”

Shields said it took her son a moment or two to realize her son was even shot. Harris was wounded behind the knee and then taken to the hospital.

Shields said she believes the four to five men who fired shots at her mother’s house were attempting to come after her brother, Dees. This incident occurred one hour after the first shooting incident downtown and after Dees was in custody.

Lt. Johnny King, commander of the SPD’s Criminal Investigation Division, the case is still under investigation, but he said that they do feel the two shootings are related.

“We don’t want people taking matters into their own hands; wait until it goes to trial,” King said. “We have someone in custody. They need to let this go to court.”

Shields said she understands the pain from the loss of the other victim and her brother will have to face the charges, but there is no reason her son should have been shot.

“My child could have been lost. My child could be dead,” Shields said.

The Selma Police Department would like to ask anybody who has information relating to the case to contact their department at 874-2125 or Crimestoppers at 866-44-CRIME.