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Ben Clink was going to move the snow.

He made a pile of the freshly fallen powder behind a white car in the parking lot of the Valley Ranch apartments in Pittsfield Township. He’d been plowing at the apartment complex since 12:30 a.m. Tuesday, and it was now about 7 a.m.

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While he was piling up the snow behind the white car, a man approached him, Clink said. The man was screaming at Clink for piling the snow up behind the vehicle. And then, he pulled out a gun.

Clink ducked down behind the wheel of his vehicle as far as he could and the man fired one shot, hitting the windshield in the upper driver’s side corner. The man then continued to approach the vehicle while Clink pleaded with him not to shoot again.

“I was just saying ‘Please don’t shoot me, please don’t shoot me, I’ll move the snow, please don’t shoot me,’” Clink said.

Luckily, the 39-year-old man didn't shoot again, and Clink was able to call 911. The man was arrested after Pittsfield Township Police arrived at the complex.

Pittsfield Township Deputy Police Chief Gordy Schick said the 39-year-old man has a concealed pistol license. The man surrendered his gun and turned himself in to the officers who responded to the scene.

The case has been turned over to the Washtenaw County Prosecutor’s Office for potential charges, Schick said. The man could face charges of assault with intent to murder.

The crew from Clink’s Landscaping consisted of about five or six men clearing the roughly 4 inches of snow that fell overnight Monday into Tuesday morning.

Clink, who’s the son of the owner, said he woke up about 10 p.m. Monday to get ready for the snowstorm. He started work about 12:30 a.m. and had been plowing all morning.

He said the plan was to remove snow from behind the dumpster, pile it up in one spot and then clear it in a few minutes.

“I guess that wasn’t fast enough for him,” Clink said of the alleged shooter.

Clink said it’s the first time he’s ever had a violent confrontation like this while plowing. He said he’s got in some arguments with people but never anything serious.

The single bullet hole caused some spider-webbed breakage in the vehicle’s windshield and police estimated it would cost about $2,500 to replace.

Work didn’t stop after the shooting. Clink said he continued plowing the rest of the morning and, after a couple of media interviews, he went right back to finishing the plow job at the complex Tuesday afternoon.

Clink said he had seen the 39-year-old man at the complex before while clearing snow and had never had any issues with him. Clink said he won’t feel safe coming back to the complex if the man is able to return and live there.

“How do I know he won’t do that again?” he said.

Kyle Feldscher covers cops and courts for The Ann Arbor News. He can be reached at kylefeldscher@mlive.com or you can follow him on Twitter. Find all Washtenaw County crime stories here.