Drug trafficking charges follow Vienna shootings

Drug trafficking charges follow Vienna shootings

WARREN

Police have charged both the man and woman involved in the Wednesday morning shooting at a Vienna Township home with drug trafficking, and charged the woman with two counts of felonious assault.

Brooke Hoffman, 38, and Craig Hoffman, 33, are in St. Elizabeth Health Center with what appear to be non-life-threatening gunshot wounds, Vienna Police Chief Andy Pecchio said. Each will be arraigned in Girard Municipal Court upon their release from the hospital.

Pecchio said police believe that Brooke Hoffman hit Craig Hoffman with one gunshot to the thigh and one to the shoulder with a Tech 9 firearm, which looks like a small machine gun.

He said Brooke Hoffman arrived at the house angry over a text message that proposed three-way sex among Brooke Hoffman, Craig Hoffman and a second woman.

She drove a 1991 Camaro around the back of the five-plex house at 4499 Warren-Sharon Road, firing once at the house, then crashing the Camaro into a motorcycle, flatting a tire on the Camaro; then entered the house.

She fired the gun at Craig Hoffman, hitting him, and then they struggled with the gun, causing it to go off and graze Brooke Hoffman in the back of the head, Pecchio said.

In searching the house afterward, police found numerous firearms, crack cocaine, powder cocaine, drug paraphernalia, digital scales and items used in the manufacture of drugs, police said.