Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw!
and charged with first degree criminal mischief and first degree wanton endangerment.
"My daughter comes in and says, 'Dad, there's a drone out here flying," William H. Merideth, 47, told a local Fox News affiliate reported Tuesday. The Bullitt County father shot at the drone, which crashed in a field near his yard Sunday night.
The owner of the drone claims he was only trying to take pictures of a friend's house, the station reported.
"I went and got my shotgun and I said, 'I'm not going to do anything unless it's directly over my property,'" Mr. Merideth said, noting that the drone briefly disappeared when his daughter waved it off. "Within a minute or so, here it came. It was hovering over top of my property, and I shot it out of the sky. I didn't shoot across the road, I didn't shoot across my neighbor's fences, I shot directly into the air."
Mr. Merideth said four men tried to confront him after the drone was shot out of the sky, but then changed their minds when they saw his personal firearms.