Luis Salvador De La Torre-cabreraDalton police arrested a man Tuesday morning for practicing his aim in his backyard.
According to an incident report, a neighbor called the police around 10 a.m. to report that he had been hearing gunshots in the northeast part of Dalton for about two hours. While on scene, officers said they heard about 10 more gunshots.
They drove around the corner, to James Street, according to the incident report. They found a man on his back porch, but when the officers stopped and tried to talk to him, he went inside. He didn’t answer the door, even though officers said they could see the curtains moving and could hear steps. At any rate, they said they found .22-caliber shell casings in the back yard.
“The shell casings appeared to be fresh and unweathered,” officer Dexter Kapur wrote in his report.
He tried to get a search warrant to get inside. But while officers waited, 19-year-old Luis Salvador De La Torre-cabrera walked out, according to the report. Officers detained him, Kapur got the warrant, and they looked through the house. Kapur said they found two rifles, a shotgun, a handgun, some marijuana, digital scales and a glass pipe.