White Woman Shoots African-American Boy In The Head After Fears Over 'Good Blacks' Vs. 'Bad Blacks'

A Georgia woman has been arrested and charged with gunning down an African-American teen near her home. Police said the incident occurred Monday just before 8 p.m. local time after the teen walked past Elisabeth Faye Cannon's house.

Bibb County sheriff’s deputies’ received a call indicating multiple shots had been heard near Cannon’s home in Macon, which is some 80 miles south of Atlanta, and someone had been shot. The victim was later identified as 15-year-old male, Vernon Marcus Jr. He was found on the sidewalk, and critically wounded, according to a news release from the Bibb County Sheriff’s Office.

Marcus, who was shot in the head, was taken to an area hospital. He remained in critical but stable condition early Thursday.

Cannon, 47, claimed responsibility for the fired shots and was sent to the Bibb County Law Enforcement Center. She was charged with two counts of aggravated assault and later posted $12,400 bond. She was released late Tuesday, according to officials. Police said the incident is still under investigation.

Just hours before the shooting, Cannon called the Bibb County sheriff’s office because "kids were throwing rocks at her home," an official said. She also called police last week when she noticed Marcus and a group of his friends were hurling rocks at her house. They had been doing that for months, Cannon told CBS affiliate WMAZ-TV, adding that "things got worse" since the police call.

"They'd get the biggest rocks," she said, which would cause "dings" and "dents" to the house and the family's two cars. "When they would see us in the yard, they would glare at us and say 'I know you're the ones who called police on us.'"

The boys came back again Monday evening while she was in the front yard, she said.

"I saw them out of the corner of my eye," she told WMAZ-TV. "The barrage of big rocks started, not just at my car and house, but me. I started shooting in their direction. They started running."

"Maybe it wasn't the best decision to make, but I thought eventually they might hurt us," she added.

Cannon, who lives with her husband and 16-year-old daughter, said the act was self-defense and stresses that she is not an “evil person or a bad person.” She said she was already complaining about her suburban neighborhood and how dangerous it can get back in 2013.

"I have some really good black neighbors, but the good blacks won't get onto the bad blacks," she told the Macon Telegraph. "You try not to profile but at the same time 99.9 percent of the crime is going to be, most often, a black male."

Cannon said she is aware that there are "good" and "bad blacks."

"You can tell if they're just out walking for exercise or going to the store or whether they're up to something," she said.