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KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- An Independence man accused of shooting into a home with a woman and children inside now faces federal gun charges.

Neighbors say Senecca Spencer, 40, was outraged and opened fire because the little boy he lived with was eating his chips.

The incident happened at the family's home on E. 41st Street on May 25th.

“We all went into the house and I heard, boom boom, then the next thing we know police are coming,” neighbor Ron Clark said.

“The little kid was in there eating his Pringles and the man got all upset and rambling on so they locked him outside," neighbor Treylond Clark explained. "When they locked him outside he was trying to kick the back door in, the older son was holding the door while the lady was calling police.”

An affidavit says Spencer shot at her and the kids, shattering the kitchen window. No one was hurt.

“I couldn’t believe it, he didn’t seem like that type of guy, but I guess evidently you never know who is living next to you,” Ron Clark said.

Independence police stopped Spencer near the intersection of 43rd and Phelps and say they found a loaded 9mm pistol in his car and a cartridge in his pocket.

A federal grand jury indicted him on Tuesday for illegally possessing a firearm because of his numerous previous felony convictions. Spencer has 11 prior felony convictions, including seven for assault and violent crimes, all in Massachusetts.

He also faces an assault with great bodily harm charge from a domestic case in Johnson County, Kan., last year. It’s unclear whether it involved the same victim.

The Independence family has since packed up and moved out.

“Start to rebuild their life without that guy because obviously he wasn’t worth it, I mean who would shoot into a house with kids in there over some Pringles?” Treylond Clark said.