MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga. — Three Milledgeville men have been arrested and a fourth was being sought Thursday in connection with an assault on a 32-year-old local man.

Authorities have yet to link the beating of the victim to any drive-by shootings as the victim alluded to during an interview with lawmen after the crime, which reportedly happened Monday at a mobile home located at 166 Harrisburg Road sometime after 1 a.m.

“There is nothing that we’ve been able to link presently to any previous shootings,” said Baldwin County 

Sheriff’s Office Detective Thomas “T.J.” Hargrove.

He identified the trio of suspects already in custody as Jatavious Glenn; Victor Bernard Tucker; and Jamario Reese, all of Harrisburg neighborhood addresses.

A fourth suspect, identified as Jarron Harris, also of a Harrisburg address, was still being sought as of early Thursday.  

“We’ve taken warrants out on all four of these individuals for one count of aggravated assault each,” Hargrove said.

Reese was taken into custody at his residence Tuesday night by Deputy Jerome Roberts, while Hargrove arrested Glenn at the sheriff’s office after an interview earlier Tuesday.

Tucker, meanwhile, later surrendered to local authorities.

The three suspects currently in custody are being held in the Baldwin County Law Enforcement Center.

The victim told Hargrove and Deputy Joshua Holcomb that he had been hanging out with some friends at the mobile home before the crime happened. The victim said a conversation erupted between some of the men about retaliation for some drive-by shootings that had taken place involving a man, whose nickname was used.

Holcomb said in his incident report that the victim told him he attempted to get everyone involved in that conversation to “chill” about it, but that minutes later he was being beaten by four men.

The victim said his attackers beat him down to the ground where he was kicked and punched repeatedly.

The man said he later managed to get to his vehicle and drive to the emergency room of Oconee Regional Medical Center in Milledgeville where he was treated for his injuries.

The victim received a large gash to the right side of his head that required six staples, a bloodied nose and lip, severe bruising to his forehead and the back of his neck, and abrasions to both of his elbows and knees.

The case remains under investigation, according to Hargrove.

Anyone with information about the crime is asked to call the Baldwin County Sheriff’s Office tip line at 478-445-5102.