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Lost Girls Shot At After Pulling In Driveway

59-Year-Old Man Arrested After Shooting

POSTED: Friday, July 20, 2007

Kelsey Beatty, 18, and Kristen Waechter, 16, said they were only trying to get their bearings when they pulled into a Madison County driveway on Saturday night.

Moments later, they said, a man shot their car twice with a shotgun, shattering two passenger-side windows and slightly injuring Beatty.

Police arrested Bobby Eden, 59, on suspicion he fired a 12-gauge shotgun at the car.

"What you think won't happen, well, it can," Beatty said.

Beatty and Waechter said they had gotten lost while traveling to a friend's house. Beatty, the driver, pulled into a driveway off Indiana 9 so they could use a cell phone to call for directions, the teens said.

While they were trying to determine where they were, a man with what looked like a BB gun approached them, they said.

Then a shot was fired, shattering the back passenger-side window.

"When I saw the fire come out of the (gun) ... I was like, 'No, that's not a BB gun, that's a shotgun,'" Waechter said. "Then I felt the glass go behind my head, so my first instinct was just to duck."

Waechter said she ducked just before a second shot broke the front passenger-side window.

The teens sped off and called 911. Eden also called 911, according to police.

In his 911 call, according to police, Eden said, "I fired a shotgun in the air after they revved the engine up and started toward me."

The teens met police at a gas station three miles from Eden's home. Eden was arrested on charges of battery with a deadly weapon and criminal recklessness.

The teens said the car's passenger side was dented by pellets from the two shotgun shells. Beatty said a pellet struck her arm.

"I never thought anything like this would happen, at least to me," Beatty said.
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