Dr. Kendall Crowns

He's the one that shot at me.

And the sheriff's officer said, sir, I'd like to speak to you.

His eyes got real wide and he took off running.

And the sheriff's officer started yelling, excuse me, sir, I need to speak to you.

And he kept running and he ran to his driveway and he got in his golf cart and began driving away at the golf cart's top speed, which wasn't very fast.

The sheriff's officer ran and got into her cruiser and chased after him down the road, and she cut him off with the cruiser and got out saying, Sir, I need to speak to you.

It was quite the spectacle.

But I didn't catch what happened next, because I went in the house, and when she got done with the interview of him, she later called me and told me what the results of her interview had found.

She said that he claimed to be an Air Force sniper, which didn't make a lot of sense.

He claimed that he knew his way around guns and he was using a CO2-charged air rifle and shooting pellets and would never have shot at me intentionally.

But he closed with, because if he wanted to shoot me, he could have done it, and he wouldn't have missed, because, you know, he was a sniper.

And he told her his true intentions were to just get rid of the doves, because he found their cooing to be irritating, and he didn't like birds, and the birds needed to go.

And she told him what he had done constituted a reckless act.

and he could be charged with reckless endangerment.

And she asked me what I wanted to do and if I wanted to pursue charges.

and I told her I didn't want to pursue charges as long as he stopped with the shooting of his air rifle in my general direction or towards my yard, because at that time I had a lot of small children who loved to play outside in the yard most of the day, and I didn't want them to get hurt, because I knew that air rifles were dangerous, and just one well-placed pellet or BB could easily enter your body and kill you, because I had had cases like that.

We didn't press charges.

He stopped shooting his air rifle in my general direction.

And we continued on with our armed truce.

He'd occasionally call the HOA and complain about us, and it went on and on like that for a few more years.