Hey, let’s get high, go out back and shoot some shit!
Two men were arrested in Ohio on Wednesday after their target practice with an AK-47 assault rifle accidentally shot up a woman’s home and nearly hit a officer who was responding to reports of gunfire.
Mary Kuruc told WEWS that her daughter discovered a bullet hole in the siding of their Montville Township home and other holes inside the house. After calling 911, Montville Police Sgt. Matt Neil began investigating and the home was hit again.
“We noticed a second bullet hole, followed the trajectory of it and noticed the bullet landed in the microwave,” Kuruc recalled.
Neil found himself in the line of fire as he tried to track down where the bullets were coming from.
“When I get about a half mile back in the field up on a hill, gunfire started again, and started hearing rounds go over my head,” the officer explained.
Neil called for backup and police discovered two men who thought they were safely shooting at paper targets, but the bullets were skipping off the ground and riddling the suburban neighborhood.
“They were drinking alcohol, they had some drugs on them and they were just outside, in their backyard shooting paper targets,” Neil said. “They felt because they were shooting at a downward angle, that it would have been OK.”
Police suspect that “dozens” of shots were fired and have asked other residents to come forward if their homes were hit.
Two men, 53-year-old Mark Bornino and 45-year-old R. Daniel Volpone, were arrested and are facing felony charges. Police seized an AK-47 with two high-capacity magazines, three handguns, over 700 rounds of ammunition and some marijuana.
AK 47’s don’t shoot up houses; marijuana shoots up houses. I just had to beat the NRA to it.
These killing weapons are made for combat. They’re designed to penetrate not just bodies. They aren’t ‘recreational,’ just like they aren’t for ‘hunting’ anything but other humans. Careless handling can result in death a mile from where they’re fired.