Police from Rockhampton have charged a 30-year-old man after shots were allegedly fired into a house at Gracemere overnight.
Just after midnight, officers were called by the residents of a Fitzgerald Street house saying that a man known to them, had shot at their house and driven away. The witness was able to provide a description of the car allegedly used in the offence.
Police observed this car pass them on Old Gracemere Road as they were responding to the incident, so they turned around, and activated their lights and sirens.
The car then allegedly evaded police and was stopped in Yeppen Lagoon, Allenstown, after a successful deployment of a tyre deflation device on Gladstone Road. Police arrested the driver without further incident.
A 30-year-old Kelvin Grove man has been charged with unlawful possession of a weapon (rifle), dangerous conduct with a weapon and two counts of wilful damage. He was also charged with one count each of evade police, dangerous operation of a vehicle while adversely affected by an intoxicating substance, drink driving, carry dangerous goods in vehicle, and obstruct police.
He is being held in police custody and is expected to appear at the Rockhampton Magistrates Court today.
