Upper Darby Police arrested 33-year-old William Dean following a neighbor dispute Sunday night.
Dean was charged with aggravated and simple assault, recklessly endangering the welfare of another person, terroristic threats and weapons charges following the altercation with his neighbor, according to Upper Darby Police.
The shooting at row home along S Harwood Avenue near Lansdowne Avenue in Upper Darby, Pennsylvania left one man hurt.
The incident around 10 p.m. followed a burglary call earlier Sunday – the last straw in a longstanding dispute, said Upper Darby Police Superintendent Michael Chitwood. Shooting victim John Sparks disputed that claim -- he said the bad blood only came about earlier Monday and that he had nothing to do with the break-in.
Sparks' neighbor knocked on his door and fired five times after Sparks answered the door and came outside, said Chitwood. A bullet caught Sparks in the armpit. Medics later rushed him to Presbyterian Hospital where he was treated and released -- he showed NBC10's Jesse Gary where the bullet remained under his arm.
After the shooting, the suspected shooter ran upstairs – barricading himself inside – and causing police to ask residents to not come outside. Police called in the SWAT team as talks to convince the man to come out peacefully failed.
"The SWAT team then was able to access, make a forced entry -- use some flash bangs -- and in the second floor bedroom they found the shooter," said Chitwood. "He's in custody."
The shooting victim told NBC10 that this wasn't actually a longstanding case of bad blood but rather one that just recently emerged.
"As far as I know he's a good dude, he just lost his mind," said Sparks. "I never thought he would pull a gun on me but he did."
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Police held the scene after the shooting as they awaited a search warrant. They wound up taking two pellet guns from Dean's home, said police.
