MAN ARRESTED AFTER SHOT FIRED INTO TRUCK WITH THREE TEENAGERS by Teresa Eubanks, CLJNews Editor
BRISTOL – A River Road resident was arrested earlier this month after three teenagers reported he shot into their truck as they were about to drive away from a neighboring hunting camp.
Andrew Lee, 38, was taken into custody after deputies arrived at River Road in response to multiple 911 calls reporting a shooting sometime after 9 p.m on Oct. 3. He was charged 
with aggravated assault with a firearm and discharging a firearm in public.
Hunter Harsey, 16, and two 15-year-old friends said they went a relative’s camp to pick up some shoes. While there, one of the boys took a shotgun, went to the water’s edge and fired twice into a large hole where snakes were often seen. The gun was then put away in the house and the three started walking to the truck to leave.
The boys said Lee then emerged from his home, holding a gun and shining a spotlight on them. They said he was 40 to 50 yards away when he told them they had “disturbed his peace” and he was “going to end them.”
“All of the doors in the truck were wide open,” said Harsey, who was sitting in the front passenger seat. One of the boys was leaning into the truck from the driver’s side while the other was getting into the back seat on the same side.
A single shot was fired from an AR 15 rifle.
“I rolled out of the truck and ran to the back,” said Harsey. One of boys joined him there while the other ran into the woods. “He had the lights turned on. He could see us; we couldn’t see him,” he said.
“We waited until the light went off. That’s when we jumped in the truck and sped out of there,” he said.
A surveillance camera at the camp corroborated their story and showed the three walking to the truck, with a light being turned on and pointed in their direction. One boy is seen running while the other two went to the back of the truck, according to the Liberty County Sheriff’s Office report.
The bullet wasn’t discovered until a few days later, lodged in edge of the driver’s seat. “The boys were sitting and talking with friends when they got to looking at the bullet hole in the back of the driver’s seat,” said Hunter’s father, Wes Harsey. “The bullet was found in the truck seat,” he said. “If it had been an inch to the left, it would have hit my son.”
Following their investigation, the sheriff’s office turned the case over to the state attorney’s office for further review.
Lee’s bond was set at $10,000.
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