A bullet from a handgun fired from inside a Sartell apartment struck a man outside the apartment complex, and the man who said he’d accidentally fired the gun was arrested.
The incident happened on the morning of June 15 in the 900 block of Seventh Street N. at an apartment complex on the north side of Seventh Street. The complex is just northwest of Sartell High School.
Arrested was Troy Jasper Heavirland, 23, who lives in a second-floor apartment at the complex. He is expected to be charged with a felony for reckless discharge of a firearm within a municipality. The injured man, 37, whose name has not been released, was rushed to the hospital with serious wounds.
Right after his gun discharged, Heavirland called the police and reported what happened, telling them he forgot the gun was in fact loaded.
According to the police report, officers saw blood outside of the apartment building. The injured man was inside his own apartment with his wife and child.
The man told officers he was outside the building, smoking a cigarette when he heard a loud noise and then felt a sudden pressure on his chest.
Heavirland called law enforcement after the incident and claimed he had forgotten his gun was loaded so it fired accidentally. A bullet hole was found in the window of Heavirland’s apartment. A fragment of the bullet was discovered on a parking lot next to the high school tennis courts to the north of the school, right across from the apartment complex.
Troy Jasper Heavirland
