Brunswick woman attacked by paintball-wielding suspect

BRUNSWICK, Ga. — A Brunswick woman says she thought she was being shot at while stopped at an intersection.

“All of a sudden we heard gunshots. I saw the paint dripping down the window,” said Sarah Dalton.

Dalton said she was at the intersection of Parkwood and 17 in Brunswick with a friend when someone pulled up next to her in a car and started firing paintballs.

“And as soon as that light turned green, they started turning, they rolled the window down and just started shooting the paintballs at us,” she said.

Dalton took pictures that same night – there’s yellow paint splattered all over her 2010 Dodge Challenger, and even on her back.

“One grazed my back, it went through my car,” Dalton said.

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She tells Action News Jax when she called police they told her similar reports have been made. We’ve reached out to police to confirm that, but haven’t heard back yet.

“It went under the windshield and there’s  no way to get any of that out. All along the ridge right here,  it got in that velvet crack,” she said.

Paintball guns are supposed to be fun. But there’s nothing fun about spending more than $5,000 to clean up your car – that’s how much a local auto repair shop said it will cost.

Dalton said she also got the tag number and a good description of the shooter.

It was a frightening experience, but Dalton is relieved it was just paint.

“We were happy that that’s all it was, at least it was just paint, not real gunshots,” said Dalton.

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