23-year-old Adam Whelan of St. John’s has been charged in connection to a shooting incident on Lidstone Crescent in Mount Pearl early Tuesday morning.
Police say shots were fired in the area around 12:30 a.m. A home and a vehicle were struck with the gunfire.
Police say the shooting was not a random act.
Whelan faces firearms offences and public mischief amongst other charges from a separate incident that took place around the same time.
Whelan was noticed speeding on Columbus drive early Tuesday morning in a Dodge Ram pickup truck that was stolen from Clarenville. Policed attempted to block whelan in, but he sped off, hitting several parked cars in the process.