A man from Rosemount, MN, found himself under arrested and charged with 2nd-degree assault and terroristic threatening last week after
threatening a neighbor and his 7-year-old daughter with a shotgun. 61-year-old Gary Drake reportedly objected to how his neighbor was teaching his daughter how to ride a bike:
According to the arrest complaint, 61-year-old Gary Drake began making comments about the father’s tactics May 25 as he taught the girl to ride on the cul-de-sac they shared. The father told his neighbor, “I’ve got it,” which apparently angered the older man.
“If you don’t like my advice, get off my street,” Drake told the man, who reminded his neighbor he didn’t own the street. This apparently angered Drake even more, and police said he went inside to retrieve a Remington 870 shotgun.
He came back with the weapon and threatened to kill the father, but Drake’s wife came outside, pulled the gun away from him, and physically dragged her husband back inside.
Drake admitted to the police that he had been drinking alcohol on the day of his arrest. He also told the police, "
Maybe next time I should have shot him."
