Stearns County Jail
(KNSI) – A Waite Park man is charged with a felony after he called police saying he had accidentally fired a gun in his apartment.
A Stearns County District Court criminal complaint says 23-year-old Tanner John Thill called police just after 9 p.m. Wednesday. Officers responded to the building near the 1400 blcok of 7th Street South in Waite Park. The complaint says Thill was visibly intoxicated when officers arrived.
Officers found a bullet hole in the floor and a gun in Thill’s bedroom. The apartment below Thill’s was vacant, and no injuries were reported. Thill told officers that he was cleaning his gun and it went off when he set it on a table.