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Man accused of firing gun after mistaking car wash owner for burglar

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Brandon Rafool
Brandon Rafool

An attempted good deed backfired as police say an armed sa国际传媒官网网页入口 man who may have been inebriated fired at two people he believed were breaking into a Northeast sa国际传媒官网网页入口 car wash, at one point exclaiming, 鈥淚鈥檓 gonna light your (expletive) up.鈥

The suspected thieves? They turned out to be the car wash owner and a friend, who were there to fix a vacuum.

The alleged shooter, 32-year-old Brandon Rafool, was charged Wednesday with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, shooting from a motor vehicle and negligent use of a deadly weapon in the Jan. 25 incident.

Rafool has been booked into the Metropolitan Detention Center. It is unclear if he has an attorney.

鈥淚t is unknown what prompts (Rafool) in acting out his vision of the world. He will injure or kill someone before he is done,鈥 prosecutors wrote in a motion to detain Rafool until trial.

The day of the incident, two 911 calls came into dispatch around 7 p.m.

On one call, a man reported shooting a gun 鈥渢o scare鈥 two thieves he saw breaking into a car wash. On the other, the car wash owner reported cowering on the floor of his office after someone fired bullets at him and a friend.

Officers were dispatched to the car wash near Comanche and San Mateo NE. They found the two men hiding inside the business and a bullet casing on the ground nearby.

Police said the owner and friend told them they were fixing a vacuum when they heard a shot and something 鈥渨hizzing by.鈥 The men said a man in a Jeep began circling the business, repeatedly pointing a gun and threatening them before firing an additional bullet.

The officer was able to identify Rafool as the suspect 鈥渂ecause he called 911 identifying himself by name and the phone number he called from was registered to him,鈥 according to the complaint.

Police said Rafool could be heard 鈥渟lurring and stumbling over his words鈥 in the 911 call, leading them to believe he was intoxicated.

Surveillance video showed a gunshot being fired from a Jeep while the two men were working on the vacuum, according to the complaint. The driver then circled the business, pointing a gun out the window.

Police said the driver could be heard yelling, 鈥渃ome out before I put one in you,鈥 鈥渃ops are already on their way homie鈥 and 鈥淚鈥檓 gonna light your (expletive) up.鈥

At one point, Rafool told someone pulling in for a car wash that 鈥渢hieves were inside鈥 and 鈥渢o not use the car wash,鈥 according to the complaint. When the person began to leave, Rafool told 911 dispatchers, 鈥渓ook, they鈥檙e leaving now,鈥 referring to the 鈥渢hieves.鈥

Rafool did not answer the phone when police tried to get back in touch with him.