Two people are facing charges for an incident where one suspect shot at a victim and a second suspect drove a vehicle at them Friday night on Leitchfield Road, according to the Owensboro Police Department.
According to OPD, at approximately 8 p.m. Friday, patrol officers responded to multiple reports of a firearm discharge in the 1400 block of Leitchfield Road. Upon arriving at the scene, patrol officers found numerous shell casings and identified potential suspects after interviewing witnesses and victims, a release from OPD says.
Authorities said the suspects were located a short time later in the 3100 block of Harness Loop and transported to OPD for interviews with detectives from the Criminal Investigations Division.
According to OPD, detectives determined that 27-year-old Brian Mays retrieved a firearm following a disturbance on Leitchfield Road and began shooting toward a male victim, “grazing the victim’s clothing with a bullet.” The release says 22-year-old Emma Shelton was driving the getaway vehicle and accelerated toward the victim at a high rate of speed, forcing the victim to jump out of the way to avoid being struck.
Mays was arrested and charged with first-degree wanton endangerment (discharge of a firearm) and Shelton was charged with first-degree wanton endangerment.
