Neighbors recount fear during deadly New Albany shooting

NEW ALBANY, Ind. (WAVE) - It’s a common saying these days, but the people living in the area where New Albany Police found 24-year-old Antonio Bautista shot to death and arrested his 19-year-old brother Andreas say this truly just does not happen here.

It’s a scene they’re not used to seeing, nearly a dozen bullet markers lining the street, some with the bullets still lodged in the pavement.

“Like it was an AK-47,” Mae Mayweather, one of the neighbors, said. “It was 10 or 11 shots.”

That sound of rapid fire gunshots, that’s exactly what neighbors off Wolfe Trace Court heard for several agonizing seconds Tuesday evening.

“We heard a lot of blasts,” Michelle Anderson said. “We didn’t know at the time they were gunshots. It didn’t sound like it because it was loud and the house vibrated. But once we realized what it was, we couldn’t believe it.”

Anderson had just put her grandson down for bed at the front of the house, only a few feet away from where an innocent bystander would be hit. A 70-year-old woman, walking her dogs just like the neighbors say she always does, was shot in the leg.

It didn’t take long for Anderson to react.

“I ran down the hallway and grabbed him out of his crib in the front bedroom where a lot of the action was taking place,” she said. “So my most important thing was getting him to a place that I felt that was safe so he wouldn’t get harmed.”

That wasn’t the case for Antonio Bautista, brother of the suspected shooter Andreas, who walked out to police and was taken into custody. Police said the two brothers were in an argument before the shooting, but will not speculate on a motive.

“It’s really sad,” Mayweather said. “You know, we have enough of this. It’s just too much, too much. I have grandkids and grandbabies and it’s just too much.”

Andreas Bautista now faces charges for murder and aggravated battery and a journey through the courts that’s only just begun.

“I am sorry for all the families and, you know, what they’ve dealt with because mine is traumatic just seeing it,” Anderson said. “I can’t imagine being part of it. It’s really sad. It’s really sad the world is just like this now.”

Andreas Bautista was set to make his first court appearance Wednesday morning.

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