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Man arrested for firing gun near Elks Lounge

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By Michael D. Pitman, Staff Writer Updated 6:41 PM Thursday, February 23, 2012

MIDDLETOWN — A Middletown man is in the city’s jail following a shots fired call at the Elks Lounge Wednesday night.

Police arrested 24-year-old Alex Johnson of 16th Avenue on charges of discharging a weapon within city limits, weapons under disability and felonious assault after police say he allegedly shot a rifle just before 11 p.m. at the manager of the Elks Lounge, 912 Eighth Ave.

Police say Johnson was attempting to fight with a woman, who is the mother of one of his children and sister of the Elks’ manager, when her cousin stopped him.

Bar manager Mariah Cooper said Johnson left the bar but had returned with the rifle and fired it in her direction, police say. He was arrested without incident in the 700 block of 10th Avenue, a few blocks away from the Elks Lounge.

Johnson did not have the weapon when he was arrested and “was uncooperative as to the location of the rifle,” according to the police report. Police say Johnson called Shameka Shavers, 21, of Lafayette Avenue, who he also has a child with, to pick him up.

Shavers was arrested on a warrant issued by the Fairfield Police Department.

Johnson appeared in Middletown Municipal Court Thursday morning. His case was continued until 9 a.m. Friday. A public defender was assigned to represent him. Johnson is currently on parole for weapons-related charges, according to police.

According to court records, Johnson pleaded guilty in Butler County Common Pleas Court in 2008 on improper discharge of a firearm.

Johnson has appeared on multiple occasions in both Middletown and Hamilton municipal courts on various charges.

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