Zachery Smith.

MOULTRIE, Ga. — A Moultrie man wanted in connection with a barrage of shots fired outside a motel in February was in a Thomasville hospital Wednesday after wrecking a car early that morning.

Zachery Smith crashed the car at about 5:15 a.m. in Northwest Moultrie, Moultrie Police Department Lt. Freddie Williams said.

“It appears that he was traveling north-bound on Fifth Street Northwest,” he said. “(While) approaching an intersection where you either have to turn left or right he ran straight into a house.”

The car struck a residence at 502 Northside Drive.

Smith, 25, 820 Sixth St. S.E., was taken to Archbold Memorial Hospital with what Williams described as “serious injuries.”

Police took arrest warrants for Smith on Feb. 12 on charges of aggravated assault and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, but had not located him in the interim.

He is accused of firing a burst of gunshots that apparently struck a female acquaintance’s car but did not seriously injure anyone.

Police were dispatched at 3:25 a.m. Feb. 11 to Moultrie Inn, 1708 First Ave., to investigate reports of 10 to 15 shots being fired. About two and a half hours later officers responded to the 100 block of First Street Northwest to more shots fired.

At the second location, a witness told police that she was riding in a friend’s G-6 as the friend tried to find her cell phone. The witness told police that the back window of the car had been “shot out” and that the driver was bleeding from the neck and lower leg.

The driver told her that a man shot at her car at a motel on First Avenue Southeast after he got mad at her.

The victim apparently was cut by window glass sent flying after being struck by a bullet, Williams said.

Smith also faces charges in connection with the Wednesday morning accident.

Those charges include driving with suspended license, failure to maintain lane and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, as a weapon was found in the car, Williams said.