Erik M
Member
At approximately 3am est the neighbor at the end of the one lane road i live on decided to start discharging a firearm. This immediately got the attention of my wife and myself, who turned off the lights and the television. I keep my Beretta 96 with me as a 'house gun' and my wife retrieved her 1911 from her lockbox. I also retrieved my AR15 carbine at some point. Looking out the door I could see my neighbor wandering around his dimly lit driveway, about 100 yards away from my property. It was at that time he shouldered some form of ''black rifle" and fired rapidly until his magazine was empty. He was shooting between my house and a 3rd neighbors house. I called the local state police barracks. I was advised not to go outside and not to make sudden movements or pull shades back from windows. I had my wife go to the other side of the house and check all the doors. The state police put me on hold and asked me to continue monitoring my neighbors movements. While on hold he fired an additional 20 rounds in the same direction. He then moved into a wooded area away from the street light. The dispatcher came back on the line and told me that both state and county law enforcement had staged thier gear and weapons at the junction of our road the the state highway and were seconds from the scene. At this time 6 state patrol cars and 3 county deputy cruisers came up the road, running dark, and I was through the dispatcher relaying info which house the individual was from and I indicated it was approx X yards directly in front of the lead car. All of the cruisers drove onto his yard and covered the front flank of his house in a semi circle pattern, at which time the homeowner turned off all lights on his property when he realized how many cops were in his yard. Once the dispatcher confirmed that contact was made with the suspect he told me I could get off the line and to stay down and out of harms way. There was a heated argument between law enforcement and the suspect, and I was praying every second that there would be no further gunfire. Shortly thereafter the patrol cars started leaving one by one, and when we checked this morning the front door of his house had some type of large orange notice on it and police tape stretched across it. It is amused he is one of the county lockups, charges unknown. In all, I feel we did the appropriate (observe, decide, act) do you all concur?
If he was breaking the law you were right to call the cops.........Knowing your neighbors is a good thing, if he's that close you should know who he is and if this behavior is warrented or crazy.
