- April 25, 2024
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A deputy responded at about 1:44 a.m. May 30 to reports of shots fired, ten people arguing and cars fleeing the scene at a Burning Wick Place home that has been the site of repeated odd incidents requiring police intervention over the past two months.
There were “several cans and bottles of alcohol lying in the front yard of the residence, and it appeared as though there was a party at that location, although all the subjects had fled the area prior to law enforcement assistance,” the deputy wrote in the report. No one answered the door.
But deputies found five young men walking nearby, on Bird of Paradise Drive, and stopped them. They said they’d been playing basketball, but a deputy who detained them, patted them down and checked their backpacks found that one of the young men, 19-year-old Marcus McCormick, had “multicolored brass knuckles” inside his backpack. He was arrested for carrying a concealed weapon without a permit. Deputies found no evidence of damage in the area from gunshots.
Last month, in the early morning hours of May 9 outside the same home, 34-year-old Christopher Lee Penwell was hospitalized after someone hit him in the face with what he told deputies looked like a metal baseball bat as he tried to drop off 46-year-old Susan Paulsen, his friend and one of the home’s residents. Paulsen told a deputy that her son had been in a fight with gang members, and that she thought the attacker probably intended to harm him, not Penwell.
Less than a month prior, on April 19, deputies were called out to the same house when a 911 caller said they saw about 20 people fighting behind the home. Witnesses who spoke with a deputy “advised that two males agreed to fight at the residence, and they came to watch the fight,” according to a Sheriff’s Office report.
Two days before that incident, 18-year-old Dylan Michael Alves accidentally shot himself in the leg with a gun Paulsen told deputies Alves’ had said he found.
