A 60-year-old Eagan man is accused of firing a handgun inside his bedroom and telling his partner she was lucky he didn’t shoot her.
Charles Allen Freeland faces two felony charges in Dakota County: intentional discharge of a firearm endangering safety and reckless discharge of a firearm.
According to the criminal complaint, the victim met with an Eagan police officer at a fire station on March 14 and reported that Freeland, her long-term romantic partner, had come home from work around 6 a.m. that morning. Around 9 a.m., he entered their bedroom, went to his bedside table, took out a handgun and said he was going to shoot the television.
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