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Police: Teen shot man in argument over shoes
By Seth Burkett
Quenton Cortez Clay

A Saturday night shooting that sent a man to the hospital, riddled a car with bullets and landed a teenager behind bars stemmed from an argument over a pair of shoes, Decatur police said.

Quenton Cortez Clay, 17, of 1420 Brookline Ave. S.W., was arrested Monday and charged as an adult with second-degree assault in the shooting of 20-year-old Darion Cross outside Clay’s home.

A 16-year-old male also is sought for questioning, police spokesman Lt. John Crouch said.

Cross, accompanied by his brother and his girlfriend, went to the apartment building where Clay lives at about 8:20 p.m. Saturday to confront Clay about a pair of shoes he suspected had been stolen from his girlfriend, Crouch said.

They parked on the street near the building. Cross’s 17-year-old girlfriend remained in the car while Cross and his 22-year-old brother got out, Crouch said.

“Cross was standing next to the road, talking to his girlfriend, when Clay and another individual ran from behind the apartment complex ...” Crouch said. “They said Clay fired one round into the air, then began firing at Cross. According to witnesses, he fired a total of six times before they ran back around the apartment building in the direction they had come.”

Both were armed with pistols, according to the report, but it was not immediately clear whether the 16-year-old also fired his gun, Crouch said.

Cross was struck once in the left leg, and the car in which his girlfriend was sitting had bullet holes in each of the passenger-side doors. Both passenger-side windows were shot out, Crouch said.

The teens fled in a silver Buick Riviera, he said.

Cross was taken by ambulance to Decatur Morgan Hospital Parkway Campus, where doctors removed the bullet, police said.

Crouch said Cross’ girlfriend went to Clay’s home earlier that day to sell him a pair of shoes. Clay and the 16-year-old got into her car and looked at the shoes, but left without making a purchase. Afterward, the girlfriend looked in the box and saw the shoes were missing, Crouch said.

Detectives found Clay at the Morgan County Courthouse on Monday and took him into custody, police said.

He was booked into Decatur City Jail and scheduled for transfer to Morgan County Jail and held in lieu of $2,500 bail.

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Does this "hardened criminal" have braces on his teeth???

Thug

Sure he does , paid for by your medicaid tax dollars - and you and I can not afford to fix our childrens teeth because of the burden on us to feed house and clothe trash like this . God help us vote the plague out of the white house and end this kind of abuse of our systems and hard earned tax dollars. if they were at work or school and being productive citizens they would not be in this mess. It gets worse everyday the entitlement generation wanting and taking more anyway they can get it. I wonder if the shoes she was selling were stolen also ? Good bet that they were

Tbone! Yes he has braces on his teeth but I; not on medicaid, happen to know that medicaid does NOT pay for braces! And because this young man made a poor choice what does this have to do with his teeth. Maybe he has parents that are law-abiding, tax-paying citizens that work hard to fix their child's teeth. And why is he trash? The good book says to take the mote out nof your own eye. If you have children you must know that they are not under our watch 24/7. And why did the shoes have to be stolen just because she was trying to sell them? You may never know when you will need the same system that you are criticizing here. We go through seasons; right now your harvest seems to be plentiful, but Lord have mercy on you and yours when you come into your dry season.

My harvest is never plentiful , I work long and hard for what I have , which is very little and all I need . but I don,t buy into the good parents and not trash and not a thug. why would a young man his age have a gun in the first place if he was not looking for trouble or to cause trouble? and yes medicaid does pay for teeth and dentists need to check your policy there a little closer when they are dependant children of thug trash on welfare and God knows what else yes we have to pay for it , out of the taxes we pay in out of our paychecks which e work for , we do not sit on our tails waiting for the govment check every month. Yes I will one day need medicare and medicaid as we all do if we live long enough. but with the entitlement generation sucking it dry and the Illegals too there soon will not be anything for anyone including you Lucenior , he a cousin of yours ?

seem to know a lot about that fine example of a young man bahahahahaha

Tbone.....NO MEDICAID DOES NOT PAY FOR BRACES!!!! THIS KID IS TROUBLE, I'LL GIVE YOU THAT! BUT HE IS A PRODUCT OF HIS ENVIRONMENT....

Tbone.. Your harvest has to be plentiful if you have, "all I need"... No this young man is not a relative of mine nor do I know anything about him other than what was written here, but it is people of your ignorant caliber that is going to drain this country of what is and was meant to be.. and that is the melting pot of the world. How great are we as a country if we can't help our fellow human beings out when they are in need. What about the people that may have been misplaced by a tornado or hurricane? Neither do i -- BUY INTO YOUR THEORY -- that he can't have good parents! And NO--medicaid does not pay for braces so check your facts. Everyone that commits a crime does not have to be trash--and no I do not have a record, or on welfare. We all pay taxes, granted there are some people who abuse the system, but you cannot throw everyone in the same pot. Have you never had relatives get into any trouble at all. I know a lot about, " that fine example of a young man." because, I can see him in the children that I try to walk upright before daily. Someone has to step in so they don't get to the point that this young man did, and think that a gun is the answer to his problems. He is 17 years old, have you never made a mistake.Some people have probably done something worse than he has the only difference is that he got caught. And judging from his picture and your words he just may be a half relative of yours. He favors Obama! Nowwith all that being said I am done entertaining you, because you don't sound like someone I wish to converse with any longer.

tbone the system was in trouble way before obama

Why is it? Decatur has a little over 25 percent blacks, but 90 percent are arrested?

tbone it makes you sound unable to know ANY facts when you insist that medicaid pays for orthodontia; it does NOT unless the child was born with something like a cleft

Tbone, what orthodontist are you saying we medicaid recipients can use for braces? When my bc/bs was canceled due to being laid off, my 14 year old was in the process of braces, was put on medicaid, and is not eligible for orthodontic care. I do have another question for you. When you were a kid, did you not do things your parents didn't know about? Even small things that you thought were not a big deal? I am not condoning what this young man has done, but children are sneaky and very manipulative.

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