Posted on 12/09/2011 3:14:18 PM PST by smokingfrog
EPPING — A local hunter was charged Thursday for allegedly firing a handgun that sent a bullet flying through the walls of a house last week.
Jordan Adams, 20, of Dearborn Road, faces charges of negligent discharge, a Class B misdemeanor, and shooting across a public way, and use of full metal jacket bullets while hunting, both violations.
Authorities said Adams was hunting with a friend in the area of Old Hedding Road on Nov. 29, when one of the rounds fired from a handgun shot across the road and into a house at 30 Old Hedding Road.
The bullet entered the front of the house, passed through a sitting room next to a kitchen where homeowners Seth Roy and Caitlin O’Connor were standing, and exited the rear of the house.
The incident occurred after Adams discovered a deer in a field area across from Old Hedding Road and fired his first shot with a rifle, Fish and Game Conservation Officer Chris McKee said. He hit the deer, but when it started to take off, Adams walked closer to it and decided to use a .40-caliber handgun to fire more rounds. McKee said Adams fired four full metal jacket rounds, which are illegal to use for deer hunting.
Investigators were able to track the round that hit the house. McKee said it cut through pine tree branches and grazed a tree before going across the road and into the house.
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Darwin, award, the bullet just took off and that house just stood there.
A .40 cal did all that, WOW!!
Next time yell “MOVE YOUR EPPING HOUSE OUTTA MY WAY BEFORE I PUT AN EPPING BULLET IN IT!”
That was my first thought too.
The fool should be banned from hunting for life AND do a little jail time. He is way too stupid and irresponsible to be trusted with any type of firearm.
For me, this is just another reason why I dread hunting season every year...
Sounds like the hunter was an Epping moron.
sounds like it was the handguns fault!
The Battle of Epping Forest?
Live Free or Die!
Cops fire their weapons in residential areas all the time, (to execute the family dog), and face no punishment. What a country.
It might have been a cow.
That would have been odd. Cows almost never shoot in the direction of a house...
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