Multiple shots fired at motel in Longview overnight
Posted/updated on: September 17, 2020 at 3:49 pm
LONGVIEW — A Longview man was arrested Wednesday after allegedly firing multiple gunshots from inside his motel room. According to a press brief from LPD, officers responded to a motel on Spur 63 following multiple shots being fired at 3:45 a.m. When police arrived, they found the room door, riddled with bullet holes. Jerome Waits, 52, refused to come out. He was alone. Police eventually talked him into exiting around 7:30 a.m. No injuries were reported and Waits was taken to Gregg County Jail. He is charged with deadly conduct discharge of a firearm.
