Rock Hill police: Don’t use gun to shoot at snakes

A man told Rock Hill police responding to neighbors’ calls about shots fired Thursday that he shot his gun at copperhead snakes he found under a tarp in his yard.

Neighbors on Willowbrook Avenue and Kimbrook Avenue called police just before noon Thursday after hearing as many as five shots in the residential area, a Rock Hill Police Department report states. Officers searching the area found a man on a nearby street who admitted he fired the handgun several times after finding the serpents when he was doing yard work.

Officers told the man there are laws against firing weapons inside the city limits but did not charge the man after telling him “of other ways to handle similar problems in the future.”

This story was originally published April 29, 2016 at 11:19 AM with the headline "Rock Hill police: Don’t use gun to shoot at snakes."