Milton Shooting Suspects Surrender To Police

MILTON, GA — The two men accused of firing a gun towards an SUV last month in Milton have turned themselves in to authorities. Oronde Kermit Sinkfield and Adonte Issac were booked into the Fulton County Jail on Monday, July 23 on arrest warrants issued by the city of Milton stemming from the June 30 shooting on Hopewell Road.

Milton police said Isaac and Sinkfield will be arraigned at a preliminary hearing where a judge will decide if they are given bond on the charges they face, which are three counts each of aggravated assault and one count each of possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, possession of a firearm during the commission of certain crimes and discharging a firearm on a city street.

Officers were dispatched just before 1 a.m. June 30 to a call of shots fired at a vehicle at the roundabout at Hopewell Road just south of Birmingham Road. Officers determined a vehicle was traveling southbound on Hopewell Road when it was hit by gunfire from an "undetermined source."

While they could not find the source, officers noted a light-colored SUV was seen leaving the scene "at a high rate of speed immediately after the shots were fired." The occupants of the car, a family with a small child, were not injured by the gunfire, but did visit the hospital to be treated for minor "residual" injuries, Capt. Charles Barstow previously told Patch.

Milton police issued a be-on-the-lookout alert following the shooting to surrounding law enforcement agencies with a description of the suspect vehicle and its direction of travel. An Alpharetta police officer saw a vehicle matching the description traveling southbound on GA-400 at a high rate of speed and conducted a traffic stop on the SUV. The two occupants of the vehicle were detained and later released, as there was insufficient cause to make an arrest, Milton police added.

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While Alpharetta officers were executing this traffic stop, Milton officers responded to a burglar alarm call at a nearby home on Balley Forrest Drive. Upon arrival at the residence, officers found a rear-entry door to the residence had been forced open. Milton police searched the residence for any suspects or victims, and found the house was unoccupied. While inside the residence, officers found evidence that a firearm had been discharged several times inside the home. There was no evidence that anyone had been injured.

After extensive investigations, which included conducting interviews, reviewing video evidence, and processing and analyzing physical evidence, it was determined that the occupants of the suspect vehicle, who had been stopped on GA-400 by Alpharetta Police on June 30, had left the Balley Forrest Drive residence just prior to the Hopewell Road shooting.

"Further, there was sufficient evidence found at both scenes to provide probable cause to link the two occupants of the SUV to the shooting of the occupied vehicle," Milton police added.

Though Milton detectives found evidence at both scenes that suggested the same firearm was used in both instances, the Balley Forrest Drive homeowner told police the two suspects had permission to be in the home. Detectives are still investigating why gunshots were fired at the home, however. There have been no claims of victimization by the homeowner or other occupants besides the burglary discovered by Milton police during the June 30 alarm call. After collecting the evidence, Milton investigators issued the arrest warrants for Sinkfield, of Atlanta, and Issac, of Lithonia.

Jail records how Sinkfield was released Wednesday, July 25 on a $60,000 bond. No information about Issac's status was provided by the Fulton County Jail's website.

Photo: from left, Oronde Sinkfield and Adonte Isaac. Credit: Milton Police Department