Girard man jailed after bullets go through home into neighbor's house

GIRARD — A city man was arraigned today in Girard Municipal Court after police said he fired a weapon that sent bullets through the wall of his home and struck the house next door Tuesday.

Elmer Gordon, 35, faces charges of discharging a weapon into a home and using weapons while intoxicated.

Police responded to reports of shots fired just before 9 p.m. and found Gordon standing in a front yard “holding a bottle of booze, with his hands raised above his head,” a police report states.

Officers found bullet exit holes in the wall of a home at 367 Iowa Ave., the address listed for Gordon, as well as bullet holes in the wall of a neighboring home at 371 Iowa. Officers reported two people inside that home were unharmed.

For the complete story, read Thursday's Vindicator and Vindy.com