Manager arrested for shooting out tires.

[Desertdog]

Idiots like this gives gun owners a bad name!

Manager arrested for shooting out tires
By ADAM L. R. SUMMERS
News Review Staff Writer
http://www.news-ridgecrest.com/

A dispute about safe driving habits escalated into a shooting at a trailer park near downtown Ridgecrest on Saturday.
According to the Ridgecrest Police Department, the manager of the trailer park at 415 W. Ridgecrest Blvd. engaged in an argument with the driver of a white van. At issue was the driver’s habit of driving through the trailer park at speeds the manager considered unsafe.
According to reports, after several arguments, manager Leo Ferda told the driver that if he did not stop speeding through the parking lot, Ferda would shoot his tires out.
Despite the threat, the driver reportedly sped through the trailer park.
That’s when Ferda allegedly aimed his .22 caliber rifle at the van’s tires and fired. According to police reports, all four tires were shot.
Police were summoned to the scene in response to the shots fired. There they found the two men who had been inside the van, which sat where it stopped in the middle of the trailer park’s dirt drive.
Officers contacted Ferda and arrested him. They cited him for four counts of assault with a deadly weapon, two counts of brandishing a weapon and one count each of making terrorist threats and illegally transporting a firearm.
Ferda posted bail later that evening.
Deputy District Attorney Perry Patterson said his office has not yet considered how it will prosecute the case.

 

[flatrock]

I agree that this guy is an idiot and should be prosecuted. However, the charges sound like B. S. to me.

They cited him for four counts of assault with a deadly weapon, two counts of brandishing a weapon and one count each of making terrorist threats and illegally transporting a firearm.

Assault with a deadly weapon? You don't assault tires, you assault people. He stated he was going to shoot the tires, and he shot the tires. He apparently didn't shoot at any people, nor accidently hurt anyone through his releckles act.

Shooting a .22 in a populated area is reckless, the guy deserves to be prosecuted, but prosecuted for his actual actions, not assault.

Dirving through a trailer park at a high rate of speed is also reckless, and after being repeatedly warned the driver has no excuse. I hope the driver gets a nice fine of his own, and gets tossed out of the trailer park.

 

[angrywalkindude]

I bet he is wishing he used his pocket knife about right now.

 

[Azrael256]

You don't assault tires, you assault people.

The idea is that by shooting near the people (at the tires) he was assaulting them. Assault with a deadly weapon doesn't require that you actually shoot a person, just that you discharge the firearm in an... influential manner. If you look at the definition of vanilla assault, it does not require physical contact, nor does it necessarily require intent to harm another person.

 

[gunsmith]

Stupid is as stupid does

Shooting at tires is hollywood BS!
I hope all the charges stick,but both of them seem to be morons.

 

[R.H. Lee]

The DA will typically charge you with everthing possible, then reduce or plea bargain it down.

I know how the guy felt, but he should have used some restraint. He really only hurt himself.

 

[Standing Wolf]

The shooter was obviously too stupid to figure out how to dial 911. No sympathy.

 

[Jay Kominek]

terrorist threats?

 

[Desertdog]

I forgot to mention that this is in the formerly great Peoples Republic of California. That is one of the reasons they came up with so many charges if you hadn't figured it out for yourself.

 

[Logistar]

Actually, I want the shooter in this incident to teach ME how to shoot. ALL 4 TIRES??!! Did he shoot under the car or THROUGH the car to get to the ones on the far side?

Or maybe the driver turned around and presented the other side of the car to him?

 

[RED-DOG 40]

Logistar...He used those " Rubber Seeking Bullets" ....

 

[strambo]

I respect a man that shoots straight and keeps his word! They don't make 'em like that anymore.