A Carson City man was arrested early Friday morning after he allegedly fired a gunshot through a wall and into the closet of a room where children were sleeping.
Lorenzo Lopez, 35, was booked into the Carson City Jail on suspicion of felony possession of a firearm and gross misdemeanor discharging a firearm in an occupied structure.
According to the arrest report, a neighbor called after hearing the gunshot at 12:49 a.m. from an apartment in the 2300 block of North Carson Street.
When officers arrived, Lopez allegedly denied having a weapon, despite a shell casing lying on the floor near a bed and a hole in the wall, the arrest report states.
Lopez then allegedly admitted to firing the gun on accident, and told the officer it was in the kitchen cabinet.
"A 4-year-old and a 12-year-old were sleeping in the bedroom next to where Lopez fired the gun," Deputy D. Gomes wrote in his report. "The bullet traveled in the direction of the bedroom with the children and was stopped by the wall and other items inside the
closet."
"Fortunately," Gomes wrote, "the bullet did not enter the children's bedroom."
Lopez's bail was set at $20,632.