A Lansford man has been charged in a shooting in the borough.

According to the affidavit of probable cause filed by Sgt. Shawn Nunemacher of the Lansford Borough Police Department in the case against Daquawn King:

At 1:37 p.m., Nunemacher was on duty when he was dispatched back to his station for a shooting.

Yoany Gutierrez told police that King, 31, shot at him while he was in the car.

Gutierrez said he came from New York to see his kids at a home in the 300 block of West Patterson Street, and that at 1:25 p.m. he was leaving the address when he encountered King.

Gutierrez said King was operating a white Mercury Mountaineer with his ex Nora Solano in the passenger seat and King reached under his driver seat and placed something into his pants.

Gutierrez said as he was driving away he witnessed King do a U-turn and speed up behind him, and that King then hit the back end of his vehicle.

King then pulled up beside Gutierrez and began threatening him. Gutierrez told King he did not want a problem and that he would go to the police.

He said King replied, “You think I give a (expletive) about the police?”

Gutierrez said King pulled up a handgun and reached over Solano, who was the passenger, and that King was pointing the gun at his face.

Gutierrez said he immediately hit the gas and heard a loud bang, and King then began pursuing him in the Mountaineer.

At some point, Gutierrez lost King and came to the police station.

Nunemacher checked Gutierrez’s vehicle and found a bullet hole in his back quarter panel above the tire on the driver’s side. The bullet was found in the passenger compartment area.

Several residents told police they heard a gunshot and witnessed the white SUV chasing a black car.

Police were able to recover one 9 mm shell casing in the 400 block of East Bertsch Street.

Video footage was also obtained from nearby residences showing the Mountaineer pursuing the Chrysler.

Lansford police Chief Jack Soberick then called Solano, who stated King dropped her off in Hazleton at about 2:30 p.m. and said that King was in Freeland and she did not know anything about King shooting at Gutierrez.

Nunemacher spoke to Gutierrez’s child, who was with Gutierrez just before him leaving the home on West Patterson Street.

The child said his mother, Solano, never left the Mountaineer when it U-turned and pursued his father, Yoany.

The child said he witnessed King in the driver seat pursuing his father.

Later that day, King came to the station and initially denied any involvement or even being in the area of the incident.

Police showed him photographs and King admitted being at the location, but stated his passenger, Solano, fired the gun.

King said he assisted Solano with getting out of the area and disposing of the firearm in a river in Tamaqua.

King faces charges on two counts each of aggravated assault and recklessly endangering another person, and one count each of criminal homicide, criminal attempt; person not to possess firearm; discharge of firearm into occupied structure; simple assault; and tamper with or fabricate physical evidence.

He is currently incarcerated in the Carbon County Correctional Facility in lieu of $1 million cash bail, and scheduled to have a preliminary hearing Nov. 18 before District Judge Casimir T. Kosciolek of Lansford.