A 57-year-old man has been charged with attempted murder after he was accused of firing a 9mm handgun several times at another man, the Pasco County Sheriff's Office.
The suspect also held the gun to the head of a woman and pulled the trigger, but the gun misfired, an arrest report said.
Cecil Arnold Lambert of 10612 Evergreen St., New Port Richey, was booked into the Land O' Lakes Jail on Saturday. He remains in custody with bail set at $1 million.
Lambert had come to the home of Roxanne Poirier, 44, on Evergreen Street to pick up his belongings out of a travel trailer he had stayed in on Poirier's property, the report said.
He became upset when he saw broken windows and doors on the travel trailer, the report said.
"I just lost it, I went postal," the report said he told a deputy.
Poirier heard gunshots, peered out the front window of her home, saw Lambert and shouted, "Have you lost your mind," the report said. She said Lambert walked up to the window and smashed it with his right hand, which held the gun, the report said.
Meanwhile, Aaron Vineyard, 35, who had spent the night with his girlfriend in a shed on Poirier's property, said he heard the gunshots and also heard Poirier shout, "Aaron, he has a gun," the report said.
Vineyard said he went outside and Lambert shouted he would kill him and fired several shots at him, the report said. Vineyard reportedly said he stood there in shock.
Poirier, armed with a baseball bat, then came outside and ordered Lambert to leave, but instead he walked up to her, placed the gun to her head and pulled the trigger, the report said.
After the gun misfired, Lambert tried to clear the chamber and the gun went off, but didn't hit anyone, the report said. A witness then shouted that he had called the sheriff's office, the report said.
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