The Tamaqua man who allegedly shot two Tamaqua teens last Nov. 25 is scheduled to have his preliminary hearing before District Judge Stephen Bayer next Tuesday.

Anthony Henry Pascoe, 52, has been charged with two counts of reckless endangerment, hunting in a safety zone, two counts of causing injury while hunting, target shooting during big game season and hunting without a license.The charges were filed by Pennsylvania Wildlife Conservation Officer Kenneth Clouser.Just minutes after 5 p.m. that cold November day, Tamaqua Police, EMS and fire personnel were dispatched to South (Sharp) Mountain in the area behind the Tamaqua Area Senior High School for a gunshot victim.As personnel searched the lightly wooded area, they received word there were two victims and they were actually two blocks east, above the intersection of Green and Orwigsburg streets.It didn't take long to find the area where a 14-year-old girl and a 15-year-old boy were waiting for help. Pascoe was with the teens and had been the person who called 911, using the girl's cellphone.Getting them off the mountain was another matter as dark had fully descended, the area was heavily wooded and there were two terraced areas to traverse before the victims could reach an ambulance.Ambulance personnel tended to their wounds while still on the mountainside, stabilizing the young victims and placing them in Stokes baskets for the trip.Once on the level, the teens were taken to the Tamaqua baseball fields where landing zones had been set up for medical helicopters.The girl was flown to Lehigh Valley Hospital-Cedar Crest for treatment of a gunshot wound to her left knee. The boy was airlifted to St. Luke's University Hospital-Bethlehem Campus, with a gunshot wound to his abdomen, below his right rib cage. Both underwent surgery. They have since returned to school.At the time, Pascoe told Tamaqua Police he was on his way home when he stopped to unload his hunting rifle.He fired a single shot, a .227-caliber round, up the mountain. He heard screams and found the teens, both injured by the same bullet.When Clouser arrived, Pascoe told him he was just sighting in his weapon.Pascoe was wearing an orange and tan hunting vest, with a hunting license displayed on the back. The license was outdated, expiring the previous year.Also in his possession were two ammo magazines (one with three rounds, the other with four bullets) the empty shell casing from the round he fired while "unloading" his rifle, and two knives.