A Jim Thorpe man is facing charges after police said he fired a gun inside a Penn Forest Township home during a family argument.

State police say they were called to a home on Porter Drive at 8:28 p.m. Saturday for a report of a shooting.

The victim told Trooper Kacey Rizzo that his brother, 26-year-old Anthony Jenkins, had fired a gun at him.

When police arrived, they spoke with Jenkins, who was detained at the scene.

When asked if he had fired a gun, Jenkins admitted, “I shot one in the (expletive) air,” and said he fired straight up from the couch. Jenkins’ grandfather told police he saw the incident unfold.

He said he was sitting in the living room next to Jenkins when Jenkins stood up, pointed the gun toward the upstairs area where the victim was standing, and fired.

His grandfather said Jenkins hid the gun under a mattress. The grandfather retrieved the gun, a Glock 17 with a magazine holding 16 live 9 mm rounds, and handed it over to police.

He also told officers that Jenkins had picked up the spent shell casing and placed it on a coaster on the living room end table.

Jenkins’ mother, who didn’t witness the shooting, said she later hid the casing in her bedroom.

The grandfather then recovered it again and gave it to police. Investigators confirmed the casing matched the rounds in the gun’s magazine.

The brother told police Jenkins had been drinking and that the two began arguing.

He said he was standing at the top of the stairs when Jenkins, seated next to their grandfather, asked him if he was on vacation.

When the victim responded, “Yeah, I work, you don’t,” Jenkins allegedly stood up and fired at him.

The victim identified the Glock 17 as the gun used in the incident. Jenkins was taken into custody at 9:10 p.m. and later admitted that the gun was his and that he used it during the confrontation.

He was processed at the state police barracks in Lehighton, and the firearm, magazine, shell casing, and remaining rounds were entered into evidence.

Jenkins faces charges of aggravated assault, discharge of a firearm into occupied structure, recklessly endangering another person, simple assault, possessing instrument of crime with intent, harassment, and disorderly conduct.

He is being held in Carbon County Correctional Facility on $250,000 bail. His preliminary hearing is set for July 9 before District Judge Eric M. Schrantz in Jim Thorpe.