Mindy Fulmer, 41, of Bellefontaine, was issued a summons by officers of the Bellefontaine Police Department for discharging firearms within the city limits after a report of multiple gunshots in the area of Euclid Street and Cook Avenue.
Officers were dispatched to that location around 4:30 p.m., Tuesday, March 12, following multiple reports of shots fired in that area. Upon their arrival officers observed an SUV parked near a wooded area at the corner of Euclid and Cook. Contact was made with two females inside the vehicle, including the defendant, Fulmer. The women admitted to shooting the firearm in the wooded area pointing south.
The gun was identified as a Keltec .22 caliber firearm that had been secured in a locked box with the safety secured. Fulmer told officers she did not know it was illegal to discharge a firearm in the city limits if the gun was fired on private property. She went on to tell police that the wooded area in question belonged to members of her family and she had permission to be there.
The report is being forwarded to the Bellefontaine Municipal Prosecutor’s Office.