Man arrested after allegedly shooting at car from window

POPLAR BLUFF, Mo. -- A Poplar Bluff man may face weapons charges after he allegedly fired multiple shots from his second-story bedroom window at an occupied vehicle early Tuesday.

About 1:10 a.m., an officer from the Poplar Bluff Police Department was sent to the area of Harper and Garfield streets for shots fired.

"Dispatch received more than one call" reporting the fired shots, Det. Scott Phelps said.

It later was determined that one of the home's residents, 30-year-old Joseph Lee Johnson Jr., likely fired the shots, although it's not clear why.

Johnson was arrested on a warrant for probation violation, a second warrant and on suspicion of first-degree assault, armed criminal action, unlawful use of a weapon, unlawful possession of a firearm by certain persons and possession of marijuana.

He was taken to the police station, where he was processed.

"He wouldn't talk," Phelps said. "I don't know why he did not, but he did it. ... It appears from the stories we got, he shot from the second-story window."

Officers, Phelps said, found four 9mm casings, but there "might have been more [fired], but that's all we found."

Johnson, who reportedly is a convicted felon, was booked at the Butler County jail.