Alleged shooter receives $100K bond

EL DORADO — Bond was set at $100,000 Monday for a Union County man who allegedly fired shots at two women who admitted shooting at his dogs, according to a Union County Sheriff’s Office report.

Richard M. Williams, 43, of 186 Fennell Road, made his first appearance Monday in 35th Judicial District Court on charges of aggravated assault, possession of a firearm by certain persons, manufacturing a controlled substance, and possession of instruments of crime.

Sheriff’s deputies responded at 2:19 p.m. on Sunday to a report of shots fired in the 1200 block of Parkers Chapel Road.

Two women told deputies that they work at a goat farm in the area, and a neighbor had notified them that three dogs were on the property.

The women said the dogs have previously attacked and killed goats on the property, and they believed the dogs belonged to Williams.

They said the dogs were on an adjacent property when they arrived on scene, and they shot at the dogs.

One of the women said three gunshots were then fired in her direction from close range.

A man believed to be Williams was seen running away from the edge of his driveway and toward his camper with a rifle in his hand, the women said.

The women said they then returned to their vehicle and waited for deputies to arrive.

No injuries to humans or animals were reported in the incident.

Deputies made contact with Williams inside the camper, noting that there was a shell casing underneath his foot and another shell casing near the doorway.

Williams denied firing

shots at the woman, saying that he yelled at them.

He also told deputies that he was not allowed to have a gun because of a prior felony conviction.

Deputies said that when they asked Williams to move away

from the shell casings so that they could collect the casings as evidence, he “became angry and aggressive,” prompting them to place him in handcuffs.

During a search of the area, deputies said they found a shell casing on the ground in the spot from which the women said Williams had fired.

Inside Williams’s camper, deputies said they found a flower

pot with approximately eight marijuana plants growing inside and a glass pipe that is commonly used to consume narcotics.

Deputies said the bottom of the pipe was burned.

During his first appearance hearing in 35th Judicial District Court on Monday, Williams

was issued a $100,000 bond, cash or corporate surety.

He was still being held in the Union County Jail in lieu of bond Monday night.