Police are looking for help in finding a 24-year-old man accused of shooting a stranger after bumping into her in downtown Harrisburg last month.
Donnell Rhodes Jr., of Harrisburg was charged May 29 in connection with a shooting that injured a 22-year-old woman in the early hours of May 10 in the 200 block of North Second and Pine Streets.
Around 2 a.m., after leaving a club with her sister and boyfriend, a woman told PennLive she was bumped by a man on the sidewalk, sparking a confrontation.
The woman told the man it would’ve been nice if he had apologized or said “excuse me.”
The woman’s comment led to three men confronting the woman’s boyfriend, but they backed off when she threatened them with pepper spray.
A fourth man, who police later identified as Rhodes, approached the woman, and she used pepper spray to stop him but accidentally sprayed herself too.
“As I was wiping my eyes, he was already turning around with his hand in his fanny pack,” the woman told PennLive during an interview. “I seen the guy and then, boom. It was so fast. In a matter of seconds, he shot me.”
The woman said the bullet went through the left side of her abdomen, hit her intestines, injured her colon and fractured her pelvis.
The woman spent 11 days at the hospital recovering from the gunshot wound but had to go back after the bullet lodged in her hip became infected.
Rhodes was charged with attempted homicide, two counts of aggravated assault, two firearms offenses and recklessly endangering another person, police said.
Police said Rhodes is unable to legally carry a gun because of a prior robbery charge, according to an affidavit of probable cause
Anyone with information on Rhodes whereabouts is asked to call Harrisburg police at 717-558-6900 or send a tip through Crimewatch.
