Two men charged after shooting into northeast Charlotte home

CHARLOTTE — Police answered an unusual call in the Brawley Farms neighborhood Saturday afternoon. It turned out to be a close call for one family.

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Bullet holes penetrated a rear window of the victim’s home. Had anyone been sitting at the head of the dining room table, they could have been shot.

“That’s what we’re glad about,” said Almeta Erwin, a neighbor. “Nobody got hurt.”

Almeta Erwin and her husband, George, have lived in the community for more than 20 years.

“We don’t know what to think because we never experienced nothing like this in our neighborhood,” George Erwin said.

Police arrested 47-year-old Obilaynes Antolin-Garcia and 40-year-old Jonas Morrero-Lobeto for shooting into an occupied dwelling. The victim told Channel 9 that the men had been drinking and set up a makeshift firing range shooting at cans. At least three of those rounds went into her home.

Daniel Ragin, a neighbor, comes from a hunting family.

“Often times people think that ‘oh well because I know how to use a gun, I can do whatever.’ But the thing is, alcohol is not going to mix well with anything,” Ragin said. “If you can’t drink and drive, there is no point to drinking and shooting.”

In addition to shooting into an occupied dwelling, one of the men was charged with child abuse for allegedly drinking and firing a shot in front of a child.

Both men are being held in jail under no bond.

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