A Greenwood municipal judge has dropped a charge of discharging a firearm within the city limits against Elaine Gray.
The judge dismissed the charges recently because Robert Collins, who signed the affidavit against Gray, couldn't produce witnesses to say Gray fired a weapon.
"That was all hearsay," said Gray in an interview Thursday. "He wasn't even there when it happened. This clears my name."
Collins declined to discuss the incident in detail on Thursday, saying, "I'm sorry for any negative publicity Collins Truck and Tractor received from the incident."
The incident took place in early August at Collins Truck and Tractor on Baldwin Road, where Gray's husband Bernard Tolbert worked as an independent contractor.
Gray explained that she had arrived at Collins Truck and Tractor after receiving a telephone call that someone had run over her bulldog puppy.
She and her son, Jamal Gray, got into a dispute about the puppy's burial at Collins Truck and Tractor, Gray said. The argument escalated.
"He laid hands on me," Gray said of her son.
Tolbert intervened. Gray said she left, but her son followed her out to the car and grabbed her again.
Gray was arrested the next day and released on $1,000 bond for the misdemeanor.
Collins pressed charges of disturbing the peace and discharging a firearm within city limits.
