Man Arrested After Using Girlfriend’s Photo For Target Practice And Shooting Into Neighbor’s Home

August 30, 2012 10:08 AM

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STOCKTON (CBS13) – A 23-year-old Stockton man was arrested Wednesday after taking target practice using his girlfriend’s photo and accidentally shooting into a nearby house, police said.

Man Arrested After Using Girlfriend’s Photo For Target Practice And Shooting Into Neighbors Home

Levon Michael Davis

Officers went to a home in the 2500 block of Pemberton Court at 10:30 a.m. after residents there discovered a bullet hole in the back of their house.

Based on the bullet’s trajectory, the officers determined the gunshot was fired from a backyard directly behind the residence.

Levon Davis was joking with his girlfriend and posted a photo of her onto a back fence and then took target practice with a rifle, according to the police report.

Davis didn’t realize a bullet went through the fence and into the nearby house, police said.

He was arrested for negligent discharge of a firearm.

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[…] The next morning, his neighbors, who had heretofore lived casually and safely at the other side of the aforementioned fence, found a bullet hole in their house, the part of the house facing Mr. Davis’s personal firing range. Police quickly determined the obvious facts and despite the 2nd Amendment implications quickly arrested Mr. Davis for negligent discharge of a firearm. […]