KINGWOOD — A Bruceton Mills man is charged with wanton endangerment after being accused of shooting up to 50 times from a house.
Timothy Blake Seal, 50, was in the Tygart Valley Regional Jail on Tuesday, in lieu of $50,000 bond.
According to a criminal complaint by Preston Sheriff’s Lt. T.E. Mitter, a deputy responding to the call Saturday heard two shots as officers assembled near Seal’s Galloway Road home. Seal was carrying a hammer and speaking incoherently when he answered the door, they said.
Deputies found meth and a pipe in his pocket. Others in the home said Seal had been shooting into the dark through a window at people he said were there. A woman, who had locked herself in a bedroom, said Seal had fired 25-50 rounds.
Seal had hit the house, “no less than five times with a .40-caliber round,” severing an electrical cord hanging out a window, the complaint said. A tree on the lawn, about 10 yards from the house and 50 yards from the road, was hit twice. Another house was in a direct line with these.
Officers found a .40-caliber pistol with a round jammed in the chamber in Seal’s bed, shell casings on the floor and on the ground outside the window. Seal reportedly told police he wasn’t shooting at the house, he was shooting at people walking outside.
The previous day, Seal had called Preston 911 to report people were walking in his yard but refused to answer the door when officers arrived. They saw he was wearing a shoulder holster, and Seal said he had a BB pistol in it.
