Crime & Safety
Police: Mattituck-Cutchogue School Board Member Fired Gun During Dispute
The incident occurred during a "landlord tenant dispute," Friday night, police say.
A Mattituck man who serves on the Mattituck-Cutchogue School Board was arrested after he pointed and fired a shotgun at another person on Friday night, Southold Town Police said.
Douglas Cooper, 67, shot the weapon during a “landlord tenant dispute” on Breakwater Road shortly before 10 p.m., according to police.
He was charged with menacing, reckless endangerment and criminal possession of a weapon, police said.
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Cooper was released on $250 bail and told Newsday: “I did not and would not shoot at anyone. I was shooting in the air to scare the deer out. The tenant should not have felt that I was shooting at him.”
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