After shooting a gun during a domestic dispute on Valentine’s Day in which the bullet blasted through a neighbor’s home, Antonio Joseph Lucio has pled guilty to the discharge of a firearm in a building and firearm use in the commission of a felony.
The 28-year-old Independence Township man was sentenced Wednesday, April 16 at the Oakland County Circuit Court. Two other charges ? felony possession of a firearm and a second charge of firearm use in the commission of a felony ? were dropped from the final sentencing.
Lucio, a resident of a mobile home park on Clintonville Road, was engaged in a fight with his 25-year-old girlfriend on Feb. 14, when he fired his gun that shot multiple holes through the exterior wall and kitchen window of the neighboring home on Joy Street. The couple’s two-year-old daughter lay asleep on the living room couch during the incident.
No one was injured, though a 35-year-old woman, her 15-year-old daughter and her daughter’s 18-year-old boyfriend were home next door at the time.
When deputies arrived at the scene, they reported Lucio did not comply and ran and hid behind the bedroom door. When they ordered him to the ground, he did not and hurriedly chewed a handful of pills. Deputies were forced to take Lucio to the ground where they placed him in handcuffs. He was then transported for medical attention due to the pills swallowed, before being transferred to Oakland County Jail.