A Hanover Township man and his mother have been charged in connection with a drive-by shooting that occurred Thursday night in the township.

Police say they took Charles V. Sherbin, 26, and his mother, Donna, into custody following the shooting near Sager's Garage on Breaker Road.

Charles Sherbin is charged with aggravated assault, discharge of a firearm into an occupied structure, simple assault and recklessly endangering another person.

Donna Sherbin, 65, was charged with conspiracy to commit those crimes.

Police said Charles Sherbin, a front seat passenger in a silver Jeep, fired at least five gunshots at Harry Sager near Sager's garage around 10:15 p.m.

Several hit Sager's car before the vehicle fled.

Sager then got in his vehicle and gave chase as shots continue to be fired toward him from the fleeing vehicle.

Police pulled over the fleeing vehicle on Kings road and took the Sherbins into custody, arrest papers say.

Both initially refused to talk to police without an attorney, but police say Charles Sherbin kept talking without being asked questions.

"I wanted to empty my entire clip into the guy's head," he said, according to arrest papers.

Police say Charles Sherbin bragged that the bullets he fired came inches from Sager's head.

"I'd do it again. I'd kill that man," he allegedly said.

Sager said he has no idea why the Sherbins targeted him.

He said they started following him in the Hanover Green section of the township while he was coming home from the grocery store.

He pulled over to let them pass, and the sped away, he said.

"I was thinking they wanted to get by me," Sager said.

Minutes later, they started tailing him again, he said.

He said he didn't want to let the followers know where he lived, so he drove to his business where there are surveillance cameras.

"I figured I'd be safe," Sager said.

All of a sudden, the passenger of the Jeep shot through and shattered the driver's side window and the bullet ended up the left side of Sager's vehicle.

More shots followed before the Jeep fled, Sager said.

Sager said he then gave chase and called 911.

"They yelled at me for following the vehicle," Sager said.

Sager said he feels lucky to be alive.

After being questioned by police, he went home and brought his four-year-old son into bed with he and his wife.

"I just laid there holding both of them and was thinking about what if it didn't go the way it did," Sager said.

The Sherbins were both jailed in the Luzerne County Correctional Facility.

Police did not indicate any motive for the shooting in arrest papers.

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