[UPDATED] Truck Crashes Into House In Casper
UPDATE: 1:30 p.m.
Casper Police say the area has been reopened to traffic. No one was inside the home at the time of the crash.
Alcohol is a suspected contributing factor to the crash.
The Casper Police Department says to avoid the area of 13th and McKinley after a truck crashed into a house.
Police say officers will be on the scene investigating for several hours.
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According to the police department, the crash happened shortly after 10 a.m. Friday morning. A truck was heading east on 13th Street and left the roadway before hitting a home.
A Casper man is accused of pulling a gun on a bartender and store clerk last month.
Jason Nathaniel Hammond is charged with two counts of aggravated assault and battery and three counts of possession of a firearm with unlawful intent in Natrona County District Court.
The charges stem from a series of incidents that allegedly occurred during the early morning hours of May 14.
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He has not yet had an opportunity to enter pleas to the charges, which were bound over last week.
According to an affidavit of probable cause, several Casper Police officers responded to a gas station in the Paradise Valley neighborhood after a clerk reported that a man refused to leave the store and also had a gun in his pocket. The clerk also said the man left in a silver truck.