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TIFTON, Ga. (WALB) - Three years after bullets tore through a Tift County home, a South Georgia family says the fear has never fully gone away.

“My mom ... she doesn’t want to be home anymore,” Joshua Jordan said. “It affected my life. It changed my life. It changed hers.”

Jordan said the violence began in 2023 after threats were made against him and his family.

“As I’m talking on the phone with my mom, she tells me that this guy is texting her phone… saying that he wants his money and… making threats,” Jordan said.

Jordan said within days, the threats escalated into gunfire. He said his mother’s home was shot multiple times.

“In a neighborhood where the closest thing to gunshots was fireworks on the Fourth of July… now people are traumatized,” Jordan said.

To this day, he says no one has been arrested or charged in the incident—and he has concerns whoever did it could still be out there and possibly hurt others. Jordan said the fear spread beyond his family and left neighbors shaken.

“My neighbors… the whole community,” he said. “That whole subdivision was very distraught and very hurt about that situation.”

Jordan said even years later, his mother still doesn’t feel safe in her own home. He said he decided to speak publicly now because he worries what happened to his family could happen to someone else.

“It needs to be brought to the light,” Jordan said. “Because this could happen to anybody else.”

WALB also spoke with the Tift County Sheriff’s Office to learn where the investigation stands. The sheriff’s office said it expects to provide any public information available within three business days under Georgia’s Open Records Act.

WALB will provide updates as more information becomes available.

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