BLOOMINGTON — A Monroe County judge sentenced a woman to more than a year on house arrest for pleading guilty to shooting gun several times at a moving car over the summer, sending bullets into a nearby apartment where a child was sleeping.
Emma Spears, 19, will spend 430 days on home detention, followed by a year of probation. She will also be required to provide 50 hours of community service.
As previously reported, the shooting happened just before 5 a.m. on Aug. 6. Police responded to an apartment complex near South Winslow Court for a report of shots fired.
Bloomington Police located five shell casings near the entryway of the apartment building.
A witness told investigators they woke up to what sounded like several people arguing in a nearby parking lot, and when the neighbor looked out their window, they saw four muzzle flashes.
According to court documents, the neighbor then reported Spears was who fired the gun, and she went into a nearby apartment.
Police executed a search warrant on the apartment, and spoke to several people inside. They also collected a handgun, unspent rounds, bloody clothes and "other evidentiary items."
Investigators learned that a fight occured between Spears' boyfriend, another man and another woman just before the shooting. Police interviewed Spears, who, according to court documents, admitted to firing two rounds from the gun found in her apartment.
Spears allegedly told police that she was threatened by the other woman because she had a gun and that when the group left in a car, she heard two shots come from the vehicle.
According to court documents, Spears said she fired two shots back at the car because she thought they were aiming at her.
Spears claims she couldn't see who in the car fired a gun because of the window tint, and said she missed because "her aim is bad," and she was "sleepy." Officers later learned a woman woke up that morning and found a bullet on the floor of her one year old son's room.
The woman told police her son was asleep when the shooting happened, and when he woke up, she noticed he was covered in dust, and noticed a bullet hole above his bed and in the ceiling.
