Repository staff report
MASSILLON Federal agents have arrested a man accused of firing shots from an AR-15 rifle toward a house as an 8-year-old stood in the front yard.
Alonzo S. Stinson Jr., 20, of Maryland Avenue SW in Canton, was arrested at 10 a.m. Tuesday in the 3100 block of Kalahari Street NE in Canton by agents with the U.S. Marshals Violent Fugitive Task Force.
Stinson had been wanted on felony warrants charging him with discharge of a firearm on or near a prohibited premises, improperly discharging a firearm into a home and two counts of felonious assault.
According to Stark County court records, he fired toward a woman s house on Woodland Avenue SE at 6 p.m. Feb. 19 as the child and her father stood in the yard. Court records allege he intended to harm the child, firing at her three times.