Tifton Police Department detectives are continuing their investigations of a shooting and a stabbing that occurred in two different locations within minutes of each other early Sunday morning. The man who was shot in the middle of his back is listed in serious condition at Tift Regional Medical Center, and the woman who was stabbed was treated at the hospital and released, according to a hospital spokesman.

TPD Officer Charlie McCormick responded to the area of the 100 block of West11th Street to reports that a man had been shot. When he arrived at the location, he wrote, he discovered that the man who had been shot was at Tift Regional Medical Center being treated. The shooting is reported to have happened between 12:25 and 12:33 a.m. Sunday.

Once at the hospital, McCormick interviewed Dexter Davis, 44, who said he was sitting in his vehicle at his West 11th Street address when he was shot and he didn’t know who had shot him. McCormick wrote that Davis was hit by a single bullet to the middle of his back.

An apparent argument over a man led to a verbal argument, then a fight and the ultimate stabbing of one woman early Sunday morning. At 12:36 a.m. Sunday, TPD Officer Freddy Amaya responded to a call that someone had been stabbed at a residence in the 1100 block of South Central Avenue. Amaya wrote in his incident report that first reports were that the offender was still on the scene of the stabbing, but that turned out not to be the case. Amaya and TPD Officer Mike Gaskins arrived at the residence to find the victim, Deborah Lee Uzowihe, 40, lying on the floor of the resident’s living room. She had been stabbed once in the shoulder, Amaya wrote, and the offender was not on the scene.

One witness told Amaya that Uzowihe and the offender were involved in a verbal argument and that during that argument, Uzowihe pushed the offender into a piano. Another witness told Amaya that the offender told Uzowihe, “I’m going to cut you,” and “I’m going to stab you.” Also, the second witness said, the offender walked into the kitchen with the victim behind her and then the offender turned and stabbed Uzowihe. Then, the witness said, the fight between the two continued toward the home’s laundry room. One of the witnesses told Amaya that the offender was trying to stab the victim again, “throwing downward strokes” at Uzowihe with the knife and making threats. The witness said the offender left the home running on foot. One of the witnesses said that while Uzowihe and the offender went to the kitchen, Uzowihe charged toward the offender and that is when the offender “stabbed her accidentally.” Another witness said they saw the offender leaving the residence and headed toward the back of the house.

Amaya wrote that Uzowihe told him that during the fight in the living room, the offender made threats and told her, “I’m fixing to go to the kitchen and get a knife and cut you.” Uzowihe also told Amaya that she did follow the offender into the kitchen, at which time the offender picked up a knife and stabbed her and then, as the offender tried to stab her again, she fought and the offender dropped the knife and left.

Gaskins recovered the knife believed to have been used in the stabbing in the laundry room, according to reports. Lt. Larry Scarborough took pictures of the crime scene and Det. Bryan Cavenaugh took pictures of Uzowihe’s injuries. Scarborough wrote that the residence was dimly lit and that he was able to follow a blood trail from the kitchen to the laundry room by using a flashlight and that he also noticed blood on the refrigerator. He also wrote that there was a blue jacket with blood on the inside lining on a table in the laundry room. The knife had a silver blade and a brown handle and the coat is believed to have been used to wipe blood off the knife.

To contact senior reporter Angie Thompson, call 382-4321.