NEW BRITAIN, Conn. — The man suspected of a shooting at an Irish pub in Punta Gorda is in police custody in Connecticut.
28-year-old Carlos Colon-Parrilla was arrested Tuesday by police in New Britain after turning himself in.
Colon-Parrilla was asked to leave the Celtic Ray Public House on Marion Avenue after allegedly causing a disturbance the night of January 21.
Witnesses said they saw Colon-Parrilla firing a weapon described as an AR-15 style rifle into the air from his vehicle and then toward the building. They continued to hear gunshots as Colon-Parrilla was driving over the northbound bridge into Port Charlotte.
There were no injuries reported.
Colon-Parrilla is charged with Discharging a Firearm in Public from a Vehicle with 1000 feet of a Person and two counts of Shooting into an Occupied/Unoccupied Building.
He is awaiting extradition back to Charlotte County.
