Bowling Green Police cited a man Wednesday for firing a gun into the apartment above him, where four residents were home at the time.
Henry Spires Jr., 53, of Toledo, was cited for discharging a firearm in city limits and obstructing official business. Sally Schick, 48, Bowling Green, was cited for obstructing official business.
Police received a call around 5 a.m., from an apartment in the 300 block of East Merry Street, to report a bullet going through the floor of the apartment, through a chair and into the ceiling.
When police went to the apartment below, Spires reportedly said he knew nothing about a gun being fired. An officer, however, observed the hole in the ceiling of the apartment.
Spires then reportedly told police he was holding a bag of AR style rounds and one went off in the bag and shot straight up into the apartment above.
Schick, who lives in the apartment below, reportedly told police that Spires was trying to disassemble a rifle when the round went off. Police searched the apartment and did not locate a gun. Eventually, Spires reportedly told police that he was trying to put the firearm in a case when it went off. He reportedly told officers that after it was discharged, he had asked someone to take it away from the apartment.
The gun was returned to the apartment and picked up by police.
