GULFPORT — Gulfport Police Chief Leonard Papania says no charges will be filed against the man who entered three Gulfport businesses with a shotgun, sending patrons fleeing and tying up massive police resources. But he wasn’t happy about it.
Papania told The Sun Herald if there was something he could have charged him with, he would have.
Police said on Sunday night two men, one of whom was armed with a shotgun, walked into Wal-Mart, Winn-Dixie and Krispy Kreme, all on U.S. 49. Inside Wal-Mart, Papania says the man with the shotgun purchased ammunition and loaded the weapon.
He says police are not releasing either man’s name because no criminal charges were filed.
Papania says the men’s motivations were apparently to “exercise their rights.”
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