MILLERSBURG, Pa. — A Dauphin County man is facing numerous charges after State Police claim he fired several shots into his home while a woman was inside during an incident Tuesday morning.
Corey Alan Bates, 31, of Millersburg, allegedly admitted his actions to State Police dispatched to investigate the incident, according to a criminal complaint affidavit. He is charged with a felony count of discharging a firearm into an occupied structure and a misdemeanor count of recklessly endangering another person in relation to the alleged shooting.
Police also charged with with multiple drug-related offenses after a search of his home recovered 109 grams of marijuana, 85 grams of psilocybin mushrooms, and more than 3,000 prescription drug pills that were not prescribed to him or any other occupant of the home, according to the complaint.
State Police were dispatched to Bates' home on the 300 block of Chestnut Street in response to a shots-fired call at about 9:24 a.m., the complaint states. A witness told police she heard four gunshots coming from the home next to her workplace, and saw a man, later identified as Bates, come walking from around the rear of the home, where the shots originated from. He was carrying a long black rifle with a scope attached, the witness reported.
The witness told police she saw Bates break a glass window near the front door of the home, then fire one shot through the hole in the window.
The witness then ran back into her workplace, she told police. Once she got inside, she heard at least three more gunshots, the witness reported.
When interviewed by police at their Lykens barracks, Bates allegedly admitted to firing several shots into the air, and other shots into the door of the home. He then stored the rifle used in the shooting in a Nissan sedan parked next to the house, he said.
Police interviewed the woman who was inside the home at the time of the shooting, who reported that she crouched to the floor and covered her head when she heard the gunfire. The woman reported she was in fear for her life at the time.
After obtaining a search warrant for the home, police observed multiple bullet holes on the exterior and interior walls of the structure and found multiple spent shell casings on the ground behind the house.
Police say they recovered 11 firearms in the residence and in the Nissan parked outside, including an AR-style rifle in the vehicle, where Bates reported he had stored it.
The drugs recovered were seized under the suspicion that they were related to drug-dealing activity, police said.
Bates is charged with possession with intent to distribute a controlled substance, possession of drug paraphernalia, and possession of unregistered prescription drugs in relation to the drugs recovered in his home, police said.
