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Saturday, 10 October 2015

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CHARLEVOIX COUNTY, MI -- Police allege a 30-year-old Boyne Falls woman fired a gun at two people picking apples alongside a Northern Michigan road.

Shawn Rose Beeler is charged with felonious assault and felony firearm for the Sept. 15 trouble along Walton Road near Magee Road, west of I-75.

State Department of Natural Resources Capt. Wade Hamilton said a conservation officer with his agency helped Charlevoix County deputies at the shooting scene.

He said the woman fired the gun after she warned two people on off-road vehicles that they were picking apples from private property. No one was hurt, authorities said.

Earlier reports from the DNR indicated the weapon was a 9 mm handgun, but sheriff's officials say it was a long gun.

The two people on the ORVs have been identified as Stacey Smith, 25, and Donald Smith, 37, both of Boyne Falls.

Hamilton said a DNR report indicates the ORV riders were picking apples Sept. 15 from a tree hanging over a fence surrounding a property. A woman believed to be the property owner approached them, also on a quad-runner, and yelled the apples were on private property.

The Smiths dumped the apples onto the ground, then proceeded around a corner and began picking apples from a tree in the same general area, but outside the fence.

It's then that the woman, now identified as Beeler, fired the gun from an unknown distance.

The DNR officer helped transport the Smiths out of the area after they called 911. Police later helped them retrieve their ORVs, Hamilton said.

Beeler was arraigned Sept. 29 in 90th District Court and an Oct. 20 preliminary exam is scheduled in the case. A judge set a $50,000 bond.

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