A Butler man is being held at the county prison without bail on charges that he fired a handgun at a woman on Mitchell Avenue in the city.

Butler police said they also caught the suspect, Darnell Wynn, 41, with the equivalent of 10,000 stamp bags of suspected heroin.

Police on Monday night arrested Wynn on felony charges of attempted homicide, aggravated assault, possession with intent to deliver a controlled substance and illegal possession of a firearm. He also is charged with other misdemeanor offenses.

According to charging documents, police about 4 a.m. Monday responded to the area of Mitchell Avenue at State Street after neighbors reported hearing gunshots.

Interviews with multiple witnesses pointed police in the direction of Wynn, who was living with a woman at a State Street home.Police said the 24-year-old victim, who shares a child with Wynn, drove near the home after the two argued on the phone.“Wynn was calling her from a blocked number and was upset he could not see their child,” Capt. Ben Spangler, the investigating officer, said in his affidavit.The documents said the victim stopped and threw two items at Wynn's parked vehicle. Police said she threw a bottle of alcohol and a cell phone that Wynn had given her and deactivated.The documents said while this was happening, Wynn walked from an unnamed alley onto Mitchell Avenue and began shooting at the victim, who retreated back inside her car.Capt. Jim Hollobaugh on Tuesday said police believe Wynn exited the alley and began shooting at the victim, then at the front of the car. He allegedly continued to follow and pull the trigger as the victim drove past him south on Mitchell Avenue.While investigating the shooting, police obtained multiple search warrants for the State Street home and three vehicles belonging to or used by Wynn and the woman with whom he lived.Hollobaugh said the two vehicles in a parking area behind the home yielded no noteworthy evidence, but police found evidence of the shooting and more in a blue Hyundai car parked on the street in front of the house.The car was registered to the woman living with Wynn, but when police searched the home, they found the key for the car and Wynn's wallet in a black pair of pants.Three children were also at the home when police conducted their searches, but it could not be verified if they were there when the shooting occurred.According to a police news release, investigators found a .40-caliber Glock semi-automatic pistol and a bag containing 180 grams of suspected heroin and two ounces of suspected cocaine in the trunk of the Hyundai.The caliber of the pistol matches the caliber of six spent cartridges recovered at the scene, according to charging documents.The police news release noted that the amount of heroin seized would equal about 10,000 stamp bags, which would also be about 200 bricks.Police said they found a Honda Accord with multiple bullet holes Monday afternoon. The car's owner said she had loaned it to the victim. Police subsequently obtained a warrant to search the Honda.“There was one (bullet hole) dead center of the hood that looked like a straight on shot,” Hollobaugh said, “one in the rear-driver side, and there was a flat tire, but we don't know if it was shot.”Hollobaugh said police found one slug embedded in the car, and fragments of a second one were also found.According to court documents, the victim did not report the shooting because she feared admitting to police that she was driving without a valid license. She was not injured in the shooting.Police said that a vehicle belonging to a neighbor was also hit by a bullet. No neighbors reported bullets hitting their homes, Hollobaugh said, and weather conditions made finding additional stray bullet slugs and fragments difficult.Hollobaugh noted that Wynn did not have a permit to carry the gun, and as a convicted felon he is prohibited from possessing firearms.Court records showed that in 2017, Wynn pleaded guilty to felony drug charges, which sent him to state prison with one year of probation following his release.According to court documents, police were able to confirm Wynn was living at the State Street home through communication with his probation officer.Hollobaugh said police have not yet confirmed who the gun belongs to, and their investigation into the incident continues.

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