Party ends with shots; no injuries

Published 3:17 pm Tuesday, March 20, 2007

A fight at a party Saturday may have led to gunshots fired at a truck Sunday, Adams County Sheriff Ronny Brown said Monday.

Deputies were called to the Shriners’ building on Morgantown Road Saturday night.

When they got there, they found “several hundred people on the grounds of the building”, according to a sheriff’s office report. Several fights had broken out. After the deputies arrived, the crowd dispersed.

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Brown said the building might have been rented out for an event.

The next evening, according to reports, a group of about 15 people “ganged up” in front of a residence on Eastmoor Drive, and “it appeared that they wanted to fight.”

When a deputy arrived, a witness said the boys in the street had been shouting for someone to come out and fight them. They were “cursing loudly and causing a general disturbance,” the report says.

The witness said a truck drove down the street, and when it got almost to a stop sign, shots were fired at the truck.

The driver wasn’t hurt, but he showed deputies where a bullet struck the bed of his truck.

The people present said three suspects had guns. One witness said he heard six shots.

The driver said that when he looked in his rear view mirror, he could see one of the suspects pointing a gun toward his vehicle just before the shooting started.

The sheriff’s office is investigating the matter, Brown said. The two incidents may be related, he said.

“We’re in the process of making an arrest on that,” he said Monday.

Three arrest warrants were issued Monday, ACSO Investigator Maj. Jody Waldrop said.