Daily Journal staff reports
A rural Whiteland resident heard bullets hitting the trees near his home, and a sheriff’s deputy found the shooters, two males who were firing weapons at a barrel without realizing how far the rounds were traveling, police said.
No one was injured and no one was arrested during the incident, which happened about 5 p.m. Thursday, according to a report from the Johnson County Sheriff’s Office. The bullets were striking trees at a property east of Whiteland off Graham Road, between County Roads 500 North and 600 North. The shots were being fired from a property about three-quarters of a mile directly east, near Interstate 65.
The two men told the sheriff’s deputy they were shooting a rifle and a handgun at a metal barrel that didn’t have a backstop, but they thought the tree line beyond the cornfield would have stopped rounds from traveling further, to Graham Road, the report said.
They had shot about 40 rounds, the report said.
The owner of the property, who was also shooting, was given a ticket for violating a county ordinance for firing a weapon across property lines without permission or a proper backstop, the report said. The matter was sent to the Johnson County Prosecutor’s Office for further review.
