A Center Township man is in jail awaiting a preliminary hearing on aggravated assault charges filed by state police accusing him of firing two guns at a group of young men who said they were assisting another motorist.

Bryan Lee Presco, 57, is facing nine felony counts of aggravated assault and four misdemeanor charges of reckless endangerment following the alleged incident Monday on Lakewood Drive in front of his home.

In an affidavit, police said they were dispatched to Presco’s home on Lakewood Drive at 9:26 p.m. after Presco called and said three cars were racing by and he fire shots at the vehicles. Troopers arrived five minutes later. At about the same time, the young men called the police barracks and said they had been shot at.

According to the affidavit, Presco told police the kids are always burnouts and he shot over their heads with a handgun and a shotgun because he is sick of it. A live 12-gauge buckshot shell was found on his front porch, three spent shells were found in the front yard near the porch and two spent .45-caliber casings were found on the porch. Troopers seized a Colt .45-caliber semiautomatic handgun and a Emperor Arms 12-gauge shotgun from his home, according to the affidavit. Presco was detained and taken to the barracks.

A 17-year-old, identified as K.M, was driving a silver Ford Mustang with Dawson Davis, 20, as his passenger, and Riley Fish, 19, was behind them driving a red Chevrolet Cobalt on Lakewood Drive when the driver of a white Volvo, which they knew to have mechanical problems, flashed their lights at them, according to the affidavit.

Both cars pulled over and the occupants got out to see if they could help the Volvo. While walking toward the Volvo, they saw a man on the porch at a Lakewood Drive home holding a shotgun. They asked the man why he had a gun, said there is no need for it and told him the Volvo was having mechanical problems, according to the affidavit.

They told police the man cycled the shotgun, fired a shot them and the shot whizzed by their heads. They got back into their cars and started to leave when they heard about two more shots, according to the affidavit.

The three drove to the home of Luke Bowser, 19, who also lives on Lakewood Drive, but he wasn’t home. He arrived shortly as a passenger in a maroon Ford Crown Victoria driven by Max Spohn, 20, with 15-year-old J.R. as a second passenger.

Bowser got into the Mustang and the others got into the other cars and drove to the scene to get the number of the house where the shots were fired from so they could call police. Fish and Spohn told police they didn’t know the reason for the trip and thought the group was going to get some food, according to the affidavit.

With the Mustang in the lead, the vehicles drove toward the scene on Fernwood Drive. While passing Lakewood Drive but still on Fernwood Drive, a shot was fired at the cars, according to the affidavit. The drivers tried to leave by turning right onto Lakewood Drive when another gunshot hit the front passenger door of the Crown Victoria. J.R. was in the front passenger seat but was not injured. The bullet was lodged in the door panel.