20-year-old man fired a gun at his girlfriend's car over gas money, a criminal complaint says.
GREEN BAY - A 20-year-old man accused of firing a gun at his girlfriend's car was angry because she asked him for gas money, a criminal complaint says.
Dominique L. Smith was charged Wednesday in Brown County Circuit Court with two felony counts of endangering safety for shooting his girlfriend's car three times while she tried to drive away.
The shooting, in an apartment building parking lot in the 1600 block of Deckner Avenue, caused area schools to go into lockdown status Tuesday morning.
Police responding to reports of gunshots found the Ashwaubenon woman parked at a video store on Main Street. She told police she dropped Smith off at his apartment behind the store, that he became agitated when she asked him for gas money, and he opened fire on her car as she drove off, the complaint says. Police say her vehicle had three bullet holes in it.
She directed police to the apartment, where they arrested Smith and detained others who were in the apartment with him. Smith claimed he threw the gun in a retention pond behind the apartment building, but police continued to question him until he admitted hiding it in a storage area in the apartment basement, the complaint says.
The woman told police that Smith is the father of her child and that he had stayed the previous night at her Ashwaubenon apartment, the complaint says. Asked why he might have shot at her car over such a trivial thing, the woman suggested he had mental health issues, the complaint says.
Smith worked at an area McDonald's, is a Preble High School graduate and has three children, his lawyer told the court. He faces up to 15 years in prison if convicted.
Smith remains in the Brown County Jail on a $4,000 cash bond. His preliminary hearing is set for Dec. 1.