By Scottie Brown

The Selma Times-Journal

A Selma man is in jail and facing a charge of shooting into an occupied building.

Thirty-year-old Anthony Witcher, 2205 Kelly Road, is charged with firing approximately six shots inside his ex-girlfriend’s residence on River Road on Friday, May 30 after his ex-girlfriend refused to open the door for him.

Sgt. John Hatfield with the Dallas County Sheriff’s Department said investigators responded to the call, and after taking statements from witnesses, a warrant was put out for Witcher’s arrest.

Hatfield said Witcher told a family member he feared he had hit someone within the residence, but no one was harmed during the incident.

After leaving town, Hatfield said Witcher later returned to Selma to turn himself in to a bail bondsman. Witcher went to Selma Bail Bonds, thinking he was going to pay the $15,000 bond for the charge of shooting into an occupied dwelling.

“A bail bondsman in our warrant division went to pick him up, but he didn’t know that we had revoked him,” Dallas County Sheriff’s Department Sgt. John Hatfield said. “He thought he was coming to just make a $15,000 bond.”

Witcher had been out on bond for a previous domestic violence charge involving his ex-girlfriend at the time of the shooting, meaning he had violated his parole.

“The condition of the bond is if you create or get an additional charge the judge has the right to revoke you,” Hatfield said.

District Judge Bob Armstrong signed the motion to revoke Witcher’s bond.

Witcher is currently in jail and will have a first hearing early next week.

“He’ll come in probably next Tuesday for a first call, or Monday afternoon, and he’ll be issued an attorney,” Hatfield said. “Then we’ll set up for a preliminary hearing and at that point from that hearing they’ll go over his bond being revoked. The judge can either keep him in jail or let him make the previous bond that we have.”