Oregon City Man Arrested for Shooting up Own Home

No one was injured but bullets hit a neighbor's home

Posted Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 2:39 pm PT

An Oregon City Police believe may have been suffering from a mental issue will be in court next Monday on charges he shot up his own home.

Steven Scholz, 66, fired between 20 and 30 shots.

Oregon City Police said he did not appear to have been firing at anyone in particular.

"I figured I'd just shoot at random because I had all these guns," Scholz told KPTV in a jailhouse interview.

Several of the bullets went into the home of a neighbor across the street, forcing them to take cover.

He is charged with unlawful use of a weapon and several counts of reckless endangerment.

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