Thursday, July 28, 2011

BULLETS INTENDED FOR RACCOON END UP IN HOUSE

A 20-year-old Gasport man was charged with reckless endangerment after police said he fired shots toward a neighbor’s house.

Niagara County sheriff’s deputies said an 84-year-old woman reported hearing two loud bangs just before 10 p. m. Saturday at her home on Mountain Road and found two holes in the bathroom wall.

Her neighbor, Evan B. Farnsworth of Mountain Road was asked if had heard the shots fired and told deputies he was shooting at a raccoon from his rear deck. He said he had no idea that he had struck his neighbor’s house.