“The bullet was recovered inside the seat. Another bullet hole was found several inches from where the child’s head would have been in the vehicle”
Bar Harbor, MN – November 17, 2021 – A woman and an eight-year-old child narrowly escaped being shot by a Bar Harbor man after he allegedly fired a .45-caliber handgun at her vehicle and hitting it four times following his vehicle being repossessed. Strange thing is, he didn’t know his car had been repossessed.
According to District Attorney Matthew Foster, Spencer Stone, 21, has been charged with attempted murder for his alleged action taken in a densely populated neighborhood last Friday at 9:50 pm. Since Stone has no prior record, bail has been set at $25,000.
According to the DA’s charges, unbeknownst to Stone, his vehicle was in the process of being repossessed not long before he left his residence armed with the handgun.
“He thought he was firing into the vehicle of a woman he was having a dispute with,” Foster said. “He was actually firing into the vehicle of the repo guy’s ride/girlfriend. She drove the repo guy to the residence and was then following the repossessed vehicle in her vehicle when she was shot at.”
The recovery agents “chase” vehicle was occupied by two people, a woman and a child. Mistaking them for the woman he was having an argument with, Stone fired at them.
“An 8-year-old child was sitting behind the driver of the vehicle,” Foster said. “One bullet was found to have penetrated the center rear of the driver’s seat but had slowed enough (after presumably going through the metal body of the car) to not exit the front of the seat where the driver was seated.
“The bullet was recovered inside the seat. Another bullet hole was found several inches from where the child’s head would have been in the vehicle. I don’t know how the occupants of the vehicle were uninjured.”
The Police Department investigation is ongoing and Stone was initially charged with aggravated reckless conduct.
However, according to DA Foster, that charge requires “‘terroristic intent,’ which is defined in statute and the facts didn’t support that charge,”. “The charges were changed to attempted murder, Class A (one count for each occupant of the vehicle) and reckless conduct with a Firearm, Class C (one count for each occupant of the vehicle). Once we have more information and the rest of the investigative materials, there could be additional or different charges at grand jury.”
Foster explained that “I felt the attempted murder charges were warranted because he fired a .45-caliber handgun, in a densely populated residential neighborhood, four times at a vehicle as it was moving away from him and hitting the vehicle all four times.”
Stone was allegedly still being held in the Hancock County Jail as of Tuesday.
Source: The Ellsworth American
Repossession Violence – Woman and child shot at during repossession
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