A Dispute Between Neighbors Ends with a BB Gun Shooting & Arrest

Sonora, CA…From the Tuolumne Sheriff’s Office…”On Wednesday morning, our office received a 911 call from a man reporting his neighbor had shot him in the face with a BB gun. Deputies and medical personnel responded to the man’s home on Columbia River Dr. in Sonora and learned that 62-year-old Ronald Easton shot at his neighbor twice, striking him once above his eye. Easton admitted the two men have had conflicts in the past and he shot him with a BB gun. The victim was transported to Adventist Health for treatment where he suffered a sinus fracture.

Easton was arrested and booked into the Tuolumne County Jail for assault with a deadly weapon.”