An afternoon shootout on Broad Street resulted in one injury and at least two arrests.

At approximately 4 p.m., two cars drove down Broad Street exchanging gunfire, witnesses said. One car was a white Chevrolet Caprice carrying three young men while police described the other as a gold car.

“You couldn’t tell what it was at first,” said a Broad Street shop-owner, who declined to be named. “First thing, you don’t think it’s going to be something like that going on downtown.”

According to the witness, the cars came down Broad, going in the direction of Alabama Avenue. The cars were reportedly both driving slowly, while the occupants were shooting the whole time.

“I saw them through the store window just shooting,” he said, adding most of the shots were fired in between Water and Alabama Avenues on Broad Street.

Police found 9 mm shell casings and a spent bullet on the corner of Broad and Alabama. The witness described one of the weapons as a pistol.

Selma Police pursued the Caprice, until the car came to a stop on the corner of Lauderdale Street and First Avenue, at least partly as the result of a flat tire.

The car had at least one bullet hole in the driver’s side back door and both passenger side windows were busted. The men told police the windows were damaged in a separate incident. Police searched the car but reportedly did not find a gun.

One man was injured. He was shot in the calf according to Selma Police Captain Anita Barlow. He was transported to Vaughan for treatment. Barlow said she believed the victim would be fine.

Police questioned the young men on the scene and transported them to the police station for questioning. Both were arrested.

The car belonged to the aunt of one of the three young men according to Jerron Stallworth’s mother, Sandra Stallworth, who identified her son as one of the young men in the Caprice and who was now in custody.

According to Sandra, the shooting was just one in a long line of incidents involving her son and another group of young men, who she identified as living on St. Phillips Street.

“Every time they see them, they shoot at them like rabbits,” she said.

She also said that her son, who wasn’t injured in this incident, had been shot before in the lower abdomen.

She added that she has no idea why the shooting occurred.

“Black on black crime…I don’t even know what this stuff’s about,” she said. “I just know it needs to stop.”

Barlow said she believes the shooting involved a grudge between the two parties while police officials say more arrests are likely to follow.

District Attorney Ed Greene said both young men were being held without bond until a hearing can be convened Friday in District Judge Nathaniel Walker’s court. It is not known what charges will be filed.

“The issue of these defendants and their ilk is something we’ve been dealing with for some time,” Greene said. “They need to stay in the jailhouse.”

A stray shot also entered The Selma Times-Journal, piercing a second floor window and burying itself in the wall of Times-Journal Jesse Lindsey’s office.

Lee Willet, a Times-Journal advertising representative, was crossing Water Avenue when he heard the shots.

“When I got to the door (of The Times-Journal) it sounded like firecrackers,” Willet said.

Willet said he looked up Broad Street and saw several men running along Broad Street, likely trying to get away from the gunfire.

“I went upstairs, and (the office staff was) making a commotion,” Willet said. “Later, Jay Davis (Times-Journal Vice President) showed me the bullet holes through the window and through the … plaster.”