Masontown man charged after shooting at an occupied vehicle

KINGWOOD — A Masontown man is charged with shooting at a car that held a woman and their two children.

Kevin James McGinnis, 34, denied the accusation, according to a criminal complaint by State Police Trooper C.E. Smith. McGinnis was in the Tygart Valley Regional Jail Monday in lieu of $10,500 bond.

He is charged with felony wanton endangerment with a firearm and with misdemeanors of shooting across a road or near a building, brandishing a deadly weapon and three counts of domestic assault.

According to the criminal complaint, on Sunday the victim told Trooper Smith that McGinnis shot in the direction of her vehicle while she and the children were inside. She told Preston 911 she didn’t know if he was shooting at her or the children but she left.

McGinnis told police he fired the gun to make the victim leave. “He stated he became upset because the victim kept bothering him and ‘hanging all over’ him, so he shot it to scare her,” the criminal complaint stated.

McGinnis said he intended to fire across Still Meadow Road, not necessarily at the vehicle. He was firing from directly in front of a residence, the complaint said.

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