Douglas County deputies: Man fired shotgun into home, injured 2

Douglas County Sheriff’s deputies arrested a man they say fired a shotgun into a wall and injured two people in Minden.

Tyson Degenhart, 39, faces a charge of unlawful discharge of a firearm, deputies said in a news release Wednesday.

Deputies responded at about 11:30 p.m. Tuesday to a call of shots fired in the 1400 block of Kimmerling Road.

Authorities said Cade Hoffman and Degenhart were drinking alcohol when Hoffman pulled out a shotgun and handed it over to Dengehart.

Degenhart then pointed the loaded shotgun towards a wall, pulled the trigger and fired a round through the wall and into an adjacent residential unit, deputies said. The round struck two residents, who were sitting on the other side of the wall.

The two individuals were taken by East Fork Fire crews and paramedics to the Carson Valley Medical Center. They were treated for non-life threatening injuries and released.

Degenhart’s bail was set at $25,000.

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