A 34-year-old man was charged with assault, burglary and reckless endangerment after firing a gun and threatening his girlfriend inside a Monkton apartment Wednesday, then burglarizing two nearby businesses, police said Thursday.
Jacob Ryan Beckett, of the 16900 block of York Road, was arrested and is being held without bond. No phone number was listed for his apartment, and no attorney was listed for him in court records.
The 38-year-old woman had minor injuries, but was not shot in the incident, which happened just after 5 a.m. in the apartment. She was able to wrestle the gun from Beckett before he left the scene and police arrived, authorities siad.
Beckett then broke into Mount Carmel Animal Hospital, where he stayed for about three minutes, police said. Police received a 911 call from inside the business as officers were responding to the gunfire call at the apartment.
Then, Beckett broke into a nearby Nationwide Insurance office, from which police got another call, this one about 5:16 a.m., officials said.
He was eventually found and arrested behind Meadowcraft Towing.
Police initially were told he had fired the gun at his girlfriend in the apartment, but it appears he shot erratically around the apartment. The department also initially reported that Beckett was 33.
Beckett previously pleaded guilty to burglary in Baltimore County in a separate incident in 2009 and received a five-year sentence and a drug treatment recommendation from a Circuit Court judge.
Beckett has also previously been convicted of various other charges, including resisting arrest, providing false information to police, drug possession and drug possession with intent to distribute, according to court records.
Beckett has a bail review hearing Thursday afternoon.
The office of an attorney who represented Beckett in the past said he is not a current client.
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