Shots fired in Girard in dispute over food stamp card

GIRARD — City police are looking for the man who fired several shots into the air after a dispute over a food stamp card.

According to police, a resident of Carver Street in the Hillcrest Trailer Park told officers she borrowed the food stamp card of a friend who was sick in order to purchase groceries for the friend. She said she was in the shower when the friend called and asked for the card back.

The woman told officers her friend, along with another man and a woman, came to her home Tuesday afternoon and demanded the card be returned. When she did not answer the door, she said, the man fired several shots into the air before driving away.

Police found two shell casings in the area.