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SAVANNAH, GA (WTOC) - Savannah-Chatham Metro police have arrested a man for aggravated assault in connection with an early morning shooting on Savannah's southside.
It happened around 2:30am Tuesday bear Bartlett Middle School.
Police found the victim on Edgewater Road just off Montgomery Cross Road between CVS Pharmacy and Bartlett Middle School.
According to police, two men got into an argument after a misdialed phone call and then it escalated into a shooting. The victim, 24-year-old Brian Mastason, was shot multiple times and taken to the hospital with serious injuries.
"We heard three gunshots then he came back around and stopped in front of neighbor house and he put it in reverse and saw us all outside," said Travis Young, a neighbor. "We all went inside and he went to his house and we called police. "
"It was just a mistaken phone call," said SCMPD public information officer Veda Nichols. "The two men did not know each other prior to that, and they just allowed a text message conversation to accelerate to physical violence. It was just a senseless act."
Moments later, police surrounded a home on Inglewood Drive just behind the school and arrested the suspect, 22-year-old Scott Allen Elder.
Elder is being charged with aggravated assault.
Mastason remains in critical condition at Memorial Health University Medical Center.
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