FISHING CREEK TOWNSHIP, Pa. — Police say two boys were nearly shot by a man with a shotgun in Columbia County.
Officers say Christopher Lauer was threatening a woman with the weapon Friday night outside his home on Zaners Bridge Road in Fishing Creek Township near Benton.
Investigators said he fired a shot into the air to scare the woman. Then when he went back into his home, the gun went off again.
That blast hit a cabinet in the kitchen where the boys were sitting.
Police say Lauer got rid of the broken cabinet and tossed the shotgun shells in a fire pit.
Lauer is locked up, charged with aggravated assault, terroristic threats, reckless endangerment, and tampering with evidence.