ATCHISON COUNTY—Law enforcement authorities are investigating a suspect in connection with gunfire at a home in Atchison.
Just after 3a.m. Saturday, police responded to a disturbance with shots fired in the 200 block Green Tree Road, according to Police Chief Mike Wilson. When officers arrived they heard shots being fired behind the residence where the disturbance had occurred.
Officers located several persons in front of the residence who had been inside the residence during the disturbance and learned shots had been fired inside the residence and the person firing the shots was then outside at the rear of the residence and firing shots, according to Wilson.
A short time later officers took 60-year-old Leodis Byers into custody. There were no injuries.
An investigation that followed determined that several people were together at the suspect’s residence when a disturbance occurred and the suspect fired multiple rounds from several firearms. No one was struck by the rounds. A 32-year-old reported being a victim of battery and aggravated assault during the disturbance but did not require medical care. Police recovered several firearms at the residence.
Byers is being held on requested charges of aggravated assault, battery, and unlawful discharge of a firearm, according to Wilson.