EMMETT TOWNSHIP, MI -- Gunfire hit a boat carrying two Enbgidge Energy employees on the Kalamazoo River, police report.

The boat was being operated about 5 p.m. Monday, June 12, on the Kalamazoo River near the 8000 block of G Drive North when it was hit twice by gunfire, the Calhoun County Sheriff's Office reports.

Deputies found a 41-year-old intoxicated Battle Creek man who had been firing a weapon along the riverbank without any proper backstop, the sheriff's office said.

He was arrested for reckless discharge of a firearm and possessing a firearm in violation of a personal protection order. He is being held at the Calhoun County Jail, police said.

Neither Enbridge Energy employee was injured in the incident, police said.

A representative of Enbridge Energy did not immediately respond to a request for comment Tuesday.