Overview
- Police charged Karen Lynn Gaus, 42, with reckless endangerment and disorderly conduct after a Nov. 29 incident in East Donegal Township.
- According to court documents, a woman reported a bullet flew over her head while she stood in her backyard on Beattys Tollgate Road and then called police.
- Investigators say Gaus admitted firing two shots from a Browning .300 Winchester Magnum toward the neighbor’s home about 200 to 250 yards away.
- Reporting notes Pennsylvania’s 150-yard safety-zone rule for homes and that it is illegal to shoot into that zone even from outside it.
- An affidavit says officers found a dead doe and three vehicles in a corn field across the street, and police described Gaus as dismissive of the incident; online records list no attorney on her docket.