Police confronted Tall with the spent casing and he admitted he had shot some rounds because “it was the Fourth of July,” court docs say.

Officers pat searched the woman and did not find a gun, and Tall told officers they weren’t taking his gun.

Police arrested Tall and took him to the detention facility. Boeckel then talked to the woman, and she told him the gun was inside in a safe. She also pointed in the direction that Tall had fired the gun.

She pointed to the tree in the front yard which separates the house, Wicks Lane and Castlerock Park, court docs say. Tall allegedly fired five shots in the direction of the occupied park, across a street with heavy traffic from a fireworks display.

Boeckel walked over to the park to make sure no one was injured there. He spoke with several families at the park who were watching fireworks, but the further he got from the house the more people assumed the gunshots were just fireworks.

One family he questioned said that they had heard shots and knew it was from gunfire, but no one in the party was injured.