Man fired shots, tried to set fire to home with woman, 3 kids inside
Newsy
The man was arrested on several charges. When he was taken by police, he also spit on an officer, resulting in an additional charge.
A man has been arrested after police said they heard him firing shots inside an Independence, Kentucky, home; police later learned he tried to use gasoline to set the house on fire while a woman and three children were inside.
According to a press release from the Independence Police Department, officers were dispatched to a home after a woman called 911 to report she'd locked herself and her three children in a bathroom to hide from her husband, Joshua Harmon, who'd "reportedly become violent."
The woman told dispatchers she'd been assaulted by her husband and locked herself in the master bathroom of the home with the children; while the woman was on the phone with 911 dispatchers, she said the husband had left the house, so she locked the front door, according to police.
While officers were on their way to the home, the woman told the 911 calltaker her husband had returned with a gun and was shooting the front door of the house to force it open, the press release says.
Police said the man was able to get back into the house, so the woman locked herself inside a bedroom.
