Teh One Who Knocks
08-12-2021, 02:29 PM
By Cole Waterman | MLive
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BAY CITY, MI — An ill-timed joke over an ex-wife’s cooking led to a bullet flying between brothers, police are alleging.
About 9 p.m. on June 25, Bay County Sheriff’s deputies responded to a domestic violence report involving gunfire in Bangor Township. Dispatchers advised the deputies that a 47-year-old man had run to a house in the 4500 block of Mocasa Court and asked the resident there to call 911 as someone had shot at him, court records show.
This man flagged down deputies as they neared. He ended up telling them that his younger brother, 43-year-old Andrew C. Phelps, had been the one who shot at him.
The man elaborated that they had been hanging out in Phelps’ garage in the 3300 block of East North Union. The older brother made a joke about Phelps’ ex-wife cooking, he said.
“They began to argue and the next thing he knew, Andrew pulled a 9mm handgun from an unknown area and fired one shot at him,” a deputy wrote in his report, contained in court files.
The older brother said he was sitting on a barstool about 10 feet from Phelps when the shot was fired. The bullet passed about 6 inches from his head, he estimated, adding he was afraid for his life and ran outside.
Deputies went to Phelps’ house and used a PA system to call out to him. Phelps eventually came out and surrendered. On being arrested, Phelps said he wanted a lawyer.
Phelps was taken to jail, where he declined to speak with police after being read his Miranda rights. Phelps submitted to a preliminary Breathalyzer test, which indicated his blood-alcohol level was 0.054, below the legal threshold for intoxication of 0.08, records show.
In Phelps’ garage, deputies found a bullet hole in a wall, a handgun, and a magazine next to it containing nine full metal jacket rounds. Deputies also found one spent and one live FMJ round on the garage floor, they wrote in their reports.
Phelps posted bond and was not arraigned in Bay County District Court until Aug. 6. He now faces single counts of assault with a dangerous weapon and discharging a firearm in or at a building. The charges are four- and 10-year felonies, respectively.
Phelps is to appear for a preliminary examination at 2 p.m. on Aug. 26.
https://i.imgur.com/Tu4RlRil.jpg
BAY CITY, MI — An ill-timed joke over an ex-wife’s cooking led to a bullet flying between brothers, police are alleging.
About 9 p.m. on June 25, Bay County Sheriff’s deputies responded to a domestic violence report involving gunfire in Bangor Township. Dispatchers advised the deputies that a 47-year-old man had run to a house in the 4500 block of Mocasa Court and asked the resident there to call 911 as someone had shot at him, court records show.
This man flagged down deputies as they neared. He ended up telling them that his younger brother, 43-year-old Andrew C. Phelps, had been the one who shot at him.
The man elaborated that they had been hanging out in Phelps’ garage in the 3300 block of East North Union. The older brother made a joke about Phelps’ ex-wife cooking, he said.
“They began to argue and the next thing he knew, Andrew pulled a 9mm handgun from an unknown area and fired one shot at him,” a deputy wrote in his report, contained in court files.
The older brother said he was sitting on a barstool about 10 feet from Phelps when the shot was fired. The bullet passed about 6 inches from his head, he estimated, adding he was afraid for his life and ran outside.
Deputies went to Phelps’ house and used a PA system to call out to him. Phelps eventually came out and surrendered. On being arrested, Phelps said he wanted a lawyer.
Phelps was taken to jail, where he declined to speak with police after being read his Miranda rights. Phelps submitted to a preliminary Breathalyzer test, which indicated his blood-alcohol level was 0.054, below the legal threshold for intoxication of 0.08, records show.
In Phelps’ garage, deputies found a bullet hole in a wall, a handgun, and a magazine next to it containing nine full metal jacket rounds. Deputies also found one spent and one live FMJ round on the garage floor, they wrote in their reports.
Phelps posted bond and was not arraigned in Bay County District Court until Aug. 6. He now faces single counts of assault with a dangerous weapon and discharging a firearm in or at a building. The charges are four- and 10-year felonies, respectively.
Phelps is to appear for a preliminary examination at 2 p.m. on Aug. 26.