One man is behind bars after firing shots into a neighboring home with children inside.

Walton County Sheriff's Deputies responded to a rental property on West Grove Avenue just after 8 a.m. Thursday morning.

The group staying in the rental property told officials they heard what they initially thought was fireworks late Wednesday night.

"Majority of the people heard a bang, assumed it was a firecracker, kind of scratched their head if it was a gunshot," said one of the renters Chuch Spohn.

When Spohn and the rest of his group woke up in the morning, they noticed one of the upstairs bathroom windows with gunshot holes.

"Well, there were children in the room. Parent and children were in that room and that's pretty traumatizing. Could have been a lot worse," said Spohn.

When Deputies arrived, they made contact with the neighbor, 49-year-old Ian Allen, who admitted to firing a 12 gauge shotgun numerous times from his second-floor balcony between 11 p.m. and midnight, while he was intoxicated.

"From what the Sheriff told us. It was a shotgun discharged and so it was not a direct impact. It kind of went up and went through trees and so the window was broken but it didn't penetrate all the way through so we're pretty thankful everybody is safe in that regard," Spohn explained.

Allen has been charged with shooting into an occupied dwelling and reckless discharge.