Shots fired at vehicle in Defuniak Springs (MUG)

Early Tuesday Morning, a Defuniak Springs resident called 911 to report her father-in-law, Vincent Ferrara, had come to her home on Highway 90 waving a .38 caliber handgun. 

Ferrara demanded to see the victim’s boyfriend, she refused the request in fear that he would be shot by the 57-year-old suspect.

She told Walton County Sheriff’s Deputies that when she didn’t retrieve her boyfriend, Ferrara fired twice at her boyfriend’s pick-up truck. One bullet hit the driver’s side door, and the second smashed through the driver’s side window and penetrated the passenger’s door.

Ferrara told the victim that if her boyfriend “isn’t gone in ten minutes, I’m coming back for him.”

Deputies went to Ferrara’s home and he told them where the loaded .38 caliber revolver was located. Ferrara was placed into custody, and transported to the Walton County Jail.

Ferrara faces three charges: Deadly use of a weapon without intent to harm; the use, display of a firearm; and first-degree dwelling, or people. He has since been released from jail under a $17,000 bond.