Crime & Safety

Intoxicated Man Shot Hunting Rifle After Packers Loss, Complaint Says

A Town of Waukesha man had a .223 percent blood alcohol concentration when he was arrested for firing his stepfather's hunting rifle.

The game between the Green Bay Packers and New York Giants wasn’t going well on Nov. 25, but one football fan found himself in even more trouble than the Packers.

An intoxicated 21 year old man from the Town of Waukesha, was ordered down to the ground at gunpoint and handcuffed by Waukesha County deputies after it was reported he shot his stepfather’s hunting rifle at their home on Arcadian Avenue, according to a criminal complaint.

The man was charged Thursday in Waukesha County Circuit Court with negligent handling of a weapon. If convicted, he faces up to nine months in jail and $10,000 in fines from the Nov. 25 incident.

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Deputies were told by man's friend they were watching the Packers game and during the game, the man wanted to show the friend a rifle, according to the criminal complaint. The friend initially refused to see the gun but walked outside with the man to see the rifle.

After the man took the hunting rifle out of its case, the friend told him he didn’t like guns and he went back inside. The man followed him back inside but after the Packers lost to the Giants, the man was rude so the friend waited outside for 20 minutes, according to the complaint.

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The friend told deputies he did not see the man fire the gun but he heard a noise, the complaint states.

The man's family members told deputies they heard a single shot from the rifle and the man came back inside the residence holding the rifle, the complaint states. The stepfather took the gun away from him and brought all the guns in the house to a neighbor’s home after the sheriff’s department was called, according to the complaint.

The man had a .223 percent blood alcohol concentration at the time of his arrest, according to the criminal complaint.


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