Charles Key, owner of Key Bonding Company, and Antonio Boston each face three charges of aggravated assault.Two Chattanooga bondsmen were themselves booked into jail Tuesday after police and witnesses said they chased a group of people with their guns drawn, fired twice at the group and failed to identify themselves as bondsmen.
Charles Key, 52, owner of Key Bonding Co., and Antonio Boston, 36, each face three charges of aggravated assault, according to their affidavits. Key also is charged with reckless endangerment.
Witnesses told police that Key and Boston had guns drawn as they approached a vehicle in a parking lot at H&H Grocery near Wilcox Boulevard. When the driver spotted them and pulled out of the parking lot, witnesses said they fired two shots at the vehicle. Three people were in the car at the time.
The driver told police that he thought he was being robbed because Key and Boston never identified themselves as bondsmen and that he drove away as soon as he saw the guns.
The driver said Key and Boston followed him home and Boston again pulled a gun on the group. At that point, the driver realized that the men were bondsmen and that they were after a woman in the car.