An accusation of theft resulted in shots being fired and a 51-year-old Austin woman landing in Scott County Jail on weapons and drug charges.
Donnie Michelle McIntosh of the 1300 block of York Road on Austin’s far southwest side, is accused on firing shots in her son’s bedroom which went through the wall of their mobile home and through an adjacent neighbor’s mobile home in the trailer park.
Austin Police officer Brian Smith was called to the mobile home park just before 5 p.m. on Thursday, June 5, on the report of gunshots and a bullet being found inside a mobile home on Lot 93. The resident of Lot 93 told police he heard gunshots coming from his neighbor on Lot 92. Officers reported finding two more exit holes on he back wall of Lot 92 residence, according to the probable cause affidavit.
Officers knocked on the door, of what was later determined to be the McIntosh residence, but received no response. Scott County Sheriff’s Deputies and troopers with the Indiana State Police called out the occupants using their PA for over an hour but received no response.
Shortly after 7 p.m. Donnie McIntosh exited the dwelling and told officer that her son, Brett, was inside the residence.
After obtaining a search warrant, officers entered the dwelling and located the younger McIntosh under a bed in his bedroom.
In his room officers located two syringes, a spent .38 caliber shell casing, two glass pipes, a .38 caliber Smith & Wesson semi-automatic and a Glock 9 mm handgun.
When asked who did the shooting, Brett McIntosh told police it was his mother.
The son said his mother Donnie came into his room and told him to give her money back as well as everything he took out of her purse. “That’s when she started shooting,” the younger McIntosh told police.
During their search officers located a small brown jar containing a white powdery residue that tested positive for methamphetamine along with two 12 ga. shotguns under the elder McIntosh’s bed.
Donnie Michelle McIntosh was booked into Scott County Jail at 10:09 p.m. and now faces felony charges of criminal recklessness by shooting a firearm into a occupied building, criminal recklessness with a deadly weapon, possession of methamphetamine, possession of a syringe, possession of narcotic drug, and a misdemeanor charge of possession of drug paraphernalia.
Scott Circuit Court Magistrate Alison T. Frazier sent McIntosh’s bond at $50,000. As of the newspaper deadline she remains in custody.