BEN BRASCH

BBRASCH@NEWS-PRESS.COM

Deputies arrested a man over the weekend they claim admitted to shooting at his girlfriend's ex-boyfriend with an AK-47.

Jay Tates, 26, was arrested Sunday on charges of aggravated assault and three other weapons counts, according to a Lee County Sheriff's Office arrest report.

Joshua Tatlock, 29, was driving to the Lehigh Acres house of his ex-girlfriend, 27-year-old Marcie Macheck, to pick up his work shirts.

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Tatlock told deputies that "he decided to go at 2 a.m. because he didn't want a confrontation with her new boyfriend," the report said.

As he drove by her place, he told deputies he saw Tates and he knew "Tates was dangerous so he decided to leave."

Then he saw the car rushing toward him and heard several gunshots. One of the rounds went through the side of his tailgate and left fragments in the wheel well, the report said.

Deputies said that Tates had four used 7.62 mm rounds — the same used by an AK-47 — in his left back pocket.

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According to the report, Tates told deputies that he did shoot his AK-47 at Tatlock, but Tates kept changing his story about where he was inside Macheck's Monroe Avenue house when he shot the gun.

Macheck told deputies that she saw Tates with the AK-47 and heard Tatlock's vehicle but never heard any shots on her property.

Macheck showed deputies the two guns — an AK-47 and AR-15 — in her bedroom that belonged to Tates.

As of Monday night, Tates was in Lee County Jail on a bond of $45,000.