Two residents of northwest suburban Volo were arrested Saturday after a gun went off and a bullet struck their neighbor’s home.
Joshua A. Polk and Caroline J. Tatum were arrested at their home in the 200 block of Niagra Drive after a neighbor called 911 about 11 p.m., according to the Lake County sheriff’s office.
The 911 caller said he saw a person with a handgun and heard a gunshot come from the home’s garage, sheriff’s police said.
Responding deputies found a discharged round lodged in the door of a home in the 600 block of Richard Brown Boulevard, police said. Its path of travel was consistent with having been fired from the garage the caller mentioned.
Caroline Tatum | Lake County sheriff’s office
Deputies also found a loaded .40 caliber Smith & Wesson handgun and prepackaged marijuana at the Niagra Drive home, police said.
Polk, 24, is charged with felony counts of aggravated unlawful use of a weapon by a felon and reckless discharge of a firearm, police said. Tatum, 18, was charged with one misdemeanor count of possession of cannabis.
Polk is being held at the Lake County Jail on a $150,000 bond, while Tatum was released on her own recognizance, police said.
