SEYMOUR – A Seymour man is behind bars after he allegedly fired a shotgun during an argument with his stepfather.
Jackson County Sheriff Department deputies responded to the 10000 block of East County Road 500 South at 10:14 a.m. Monday after a report of a domestic fight and an adult male out of control. The female caller reported her son, 51-year-old Chad Hatton was outside of the home firing a gun.
Police say the son, 51-year-old Chad E. Hatton of Seymour had been arguing with his 79-year-old step-father and shoved the older man to the ground. The step-father pulled a small pistol in self-defense. He said Hatton fired at him and would have killed him. He then forced the older man to discard the pistol.
Hatton left the scene but was pulled over by an on-duty community corrections officer near County Road 80 North and US 31. Police discovered a rifle in the passenger seat.
Indiana Conservation Officers used firearms-detecting dogs at the home to find the shotgun hidden in the woods, buried along with shotgun rounds and wadding, and the pistol the step-father had been carrying.
Hatton was arrested on charges of possession of a firearm by a serious violent felon, intimidation with a deadly weapon, pointing a firearm, criminal recklessness and battery.
