MOBILE, Ala. (WPMI) Folks living next to a shooting range in Stapleton are pretty shaken up. They claim bullets from the range came flying by their heads earlier this week. Now, the Baldwin County Sheriff's Office is investigating.
This isn't the first complaint deputies have responded to regarding this facility. According to investigators, a report was also filed a month ago, claiming bullets from the Three Brothers Arms shooting range, left the range, and entered a camper nearby.
Chris Atchison and his fianc Ashley Young were at the back of their landlord's property Monday afternoon, looking for their dog Bama, when they said they were forced to get on the ground.
"She was standing here and I was here getting the dog and it went right by her head. Like the brush like hit her in the face. So that's how I knew it was a bullet and not just the sound," said Atchison.
With Young being four months pregnant, she said she was freighted for both herself and her baby.
"It makes me mad but it scares me more than anything," said Young.
Their landlord's property is directly beside the Three Brothers Arms shooting range, which just opened in May.
The range owners wouldn't allow us to shoot video on their property and refused to go on camera for an interview. But the berm on the far right side of the range is low enough for someone standing on the other side of it to clearly see the targets next door.
"The dirt he's got using as a barrier, every time it rains it's washing it down and making it shorter and it's washing down to this property over here so obviously that's not working," said Atchison.
Just last month Baldwin County Sheriff's investigators said they responded to claims that bullets from Three Brothers Arms went flying into a camper, which also on Atchison's landlord's property. No one was inside at the time.
"That's scary. That's ridiculous," said Atchison.
"Deputies made contact with the gun range and they were responsive and added some berms, some fencing. But once again we have a complainant that has stepped forward and believes bullets passed over their head. The way this works is we'll do the investigation ourselves then we'll ask to meet with the district attorney and present the findings to her to determine if it is a criminal case or purely civil," said Major Anthony Lowery with the Baldwin Co. Sheriff's Office.
The range owner's brother told Local 15 News it's highly improbable that the bullets came from their property.
But he said they do have plans extend the fence, and eventually bring in more dirt for their berms.
