The Flare-Up
Savannah, GA
Police were called to West 40th Street on a report of shots fired. A man told officers that another man had fired at him with a flare gun. He said there is an ongoing dispute between the man and himself. He said he was standing outside his home when the suspect approached him and said, “Is that shit over?”
The man replied, “Yes,” and started to walk away. He heard something click and looked back and saw the suspect had a flare gun pointing at his face.
In an effort to protect himself, the man slapped the gun out of the suspect’s hand. The gun went off and the flare went into the bushes.
An officer went around the corner to the suspect’s apartment. When the suspect came to the door, he was placed in hand cuffs for everyone’s safety, but advised he wasn’t under arrest.
The officer asked where the gun was and the suspect said it was in his room. The flare gun was sitting on a table near the door of the room. It had one spent shell casing in it and smelled like it had recently been fired.
The suspect told the officer he and the victim were having drinks when he said he had a flare gun and was going to fire it. He said he fired it because he had never fired one before, and that he never pointed it at the victim.
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