A 20-year-old New London resident is facing charges after shooting another man with an airsoft rifle from his apartment window, then trying to run from police when investigators arrived to question him, authorities said.
Wesley Flanders, of Broad Street in New London, is accused of firing an airsoft gun out the window of his apartment. Police said the pellets struck and injured a man outside the Whaling City Spirit Shop at 291 Connecticut Avenue around 7:30 p.m. Monday.
Authorities traced the gun to Flanders’ apartment on Broad Street. Police said he was uncooperative and evasive, then tried to run when officers confronted him.
Officers stopped him in the doorway to his apartment and spotted packaging for an airsoft rifle designed to resemble an assault weapon. Officers found the rifle near a window facing the area where the victim was shot.
According to police, investigators also found heroin and marijuana in the apartment.
Flanders was charged with second-degree assault, interfering with an officer, operating drug factory, possession of heroin and marijuana, possession with intent to sell and two counts of possession with intent to sell within 1500 feet of a school.
He was held on $75,000 bond and appeared in court Tuesday.
