A call about a suspicious hole in an apartment ceiling led to a Bowling Green man being charged with discharging a firearm in the city on Wednesday.
Bowling Green police received a call Wednesday evening from a resident of the apartment complex at 214 Napoleon Road, after the person noticed a hole in the ceiling, according to Bowling Green Police Lt. Dan Mancuso.
When investigating the police talked with Samuel G. L. Williamson, who lived in the apartment above the caller’s.
Williamson said he had been cleaning his 9mm handgun earlier in the day, around 3 p.m., when it accidentally discharged. The bullet when through his coffee table and floor, then through the downstair neighbor’s ceiling, finally lodging in a wall.
Williamson’s gun was confiscated by the police. There were no injuries, Mancuso said.
