CHARLESTOWN —
A Charlestown man was taken into custody after firing multiple rounds from a handgun during a dispute with his wife while inside his family’s Creekside Apartments unit early Sunday morning, Charlestown police said.
Adam Douglas Cave, 29, left the home before Charlestown police arrived, but was located a short time later hiding under the bed of nearby apartment in the same complex, which is located off of Fulkerson Drive, Charlestown Police Chief Keith McDonald said.
McDonald said Cave’s wife made the 911 call that sent authorities to the home.
At the scene, police found bullet holes in a bedroom wall, several spent shell casings and a .40-caliber Springfield semi-automatic handgun, which was seized by Charlestown police and is being held as evidence, McDonald said.
He said police responded about 2:30 a.m., at which time Cave’s wife said that the two were arguing, before her husband retrieved the firearm and fired the shots. He said the woman reported that Cave then set the pistol down and the argument continued in the living room of the home.
She told police, McDonald said, that her 17-year-old stepped in to stop the argument that had become physical. During the altercation between Cave and his stepson, Cave received minor injuries and the minor was not harmed, McDonald said.
Cave then left the home and went to the nearby residence that, McDonald reported, was the home of an acquaintance of the couple. Before Cave was found under a bed in the home, McDonald said, officers were given consent to search the home by the cooperative tenants. After taking Cave into custody, he was taken to Saint Catherine Regional Hospital in Charlestown for treatment of his injuries.
Several hours later, McDonald said, Cave was released from the hospital and booked into Michael L. Becher Adult Correctional Complex in Jeffersonville.
Cave was preliminarily charged by Charlestown police with intimidation with a deadly weapon, a class C felony, criminal recklessness with a deadly weapon, a class C felony, resisting law enforcement, a class A misdemeanor, and domestic battery, a class A misdemeanor.
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