CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. — A Fort Campbell soldier who was shot by the father of her child on New Year's Day remains in critical but stable condition at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.
Clarksville Police report the victim, 22-year-old Chelcee Sine-Garza, was shot by Malcolm R. Turner multiple times at her Cranklen Circle home around 12:50 p.m. following an argument, according to a Clarksville Police report.
When Clarksville Police arrived, they found Sine-Garza laying on the ground bleeding. She was covered in blood and had several gunshot wounds to her body, but was alert and able to talk, according to the report.
Sine-Garza told police Turner came to the house with his wife in a blue car. They had an argument, and he shot her. She told the police Turner lived in Colorado and the car had a Georgia plate.
A witness also told police he saw a black male in a gray hoodie leaving and getting in a sparkly light blue Chrysler 300. When police arrived, the witness was rendering aid to Sine-Garza, the report said.
The victim was taken by ambulance to Outlaw Field and flown by medical helicopter to Vanderbilt University Medical Center, where she was listed in critical but stable condition Thursday evening and remains in the same condition.
Just over an hour after the call, at 1:55 p.m., police stopped a car at a traffic stop in the neighborhood and Turner was arrested as a suspect.
Sine-Garza and Turner have a 1-year-old son together.
Turner, 27, who gave a Fort Carson, Colorado, address, is charged with aggravated assault. He is being held in the Montgomery County Jail on a $500,000 bond.
He was arraigned in General Sessions court Friday at 8 a.m. and has a docket call scheduled for Jan. 5 to give him time to hire an attorney.
