Eureka Police are trying to find a 33-year-old Pacific man who allegedly fired a gun and tried to hit another man with a pickup outside the QuikTrip gas station, 290 E. Fourth St. No one was injured in the incident, and no property was damaged, police reported.
Officers were called to the gas station at about 12:50 a.m. March 21, and a 24-year-old Farmington man said he had confronted the Pacific man who allegedly shot a gun and then tried to hit him with a Dodge Ram in the gas station parking lot, the report said.
Before arriving at the gas station, the Farmington man said he was at his girlfriend’s house in Pacific and the Pacific man, who previously dated the same woman, showed up at the home and may have thrown a rock through a window on the Farmington man’s pickup, also a Dodge Ram, according to the report.
The Farmington man said he left his girlfriend’s home and noticed that a black Dodge Ram with tinted windows and a blue light bar was following him on eastbound I-44. He said the person driving that pickup followed him off the interstate and to the QuikTrip, the report said.
The Farmington man said he called his girlfriend from the gas station and confirmed with her that her former boyfriend drove a Ram that matched the description of the pickup he believed was following him, according to the report.
The Farmington man said he then followed the Pacific man who left the gas station but circled back to the station and parked. The Farmington man said he approached the pickup the Pacific man was driving and yelled at him, accusing him of breaking the window on his pickup, the report said.
The Pacific man reportedly rolled down his window and allegedly pointed a gun at the Farmington man and told him to get away. The driver then allegedly fired one shot from the gun and tried to run into the Farmington man with his pickup, Eureka Police reported.
An officer found a .9-millimeter casing on the parking lot believed to have been fired by the Pacific man, the report said.
As of March 27, the Pacific man had not been located, but he was wanted for alleged first-degree assault and unlawful use of a weapon, Lt. Michael Werges said. He asks anyone with information about the suspect and the incident to call Eureka Police at 636-938-6600.