Northern Cambria man accused of attempted homicide outside VFW, police say
A Northern Cambria man was jailed Friday without bond in what police are calling an attempted homicide, authorities said.
Northern Cambria Borough police charged Barry Lee Wetzel, 48, of Cherry Ridge Terrace, with aggravated assault, discharging a firearm into an occupied structure, terroristic threats, reckless endangerment and criminal mischief.
According to a complaint affidavit, police were called to a report of shots fired just after midnight Wednesday outside the Barnesboro VFW Post 343 in the 800 block of Maple Avenue.
According to police, a woman said she was sitting in a car with her son when she noticed her husband’s truck parked in a lot at St. Marys Avenue and Maple Avenue. Then a gunshot allegedly rang out.
The car door was open and a bullet hit the dashboard. The woman and her son ran inside the VFW, and the building was locked down, not letting anyone inside, the affidavit said.
The woman allegedly told police that she and Wetzel had argued earlier, and that he allegedly threatened to kill her and then kill himself.
Police said the house next door was occupied, but no one was injured. Police called the incident an attempted homicide, per the affidavit.
Wetzel was arraigned Friday by on-call District Judge Kevin Price, of Johnstown, and sent to Cambria County Prison in Ebensburg.
