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The incident happened on Tuesday, May 9 just after 7:30 p.m., when police responded to a residence in New Rochelle on Keogh Lane on a reported menacing incident involving a handgun, according to New Rochelle PD Captain J. Collins Coyne.
An investigation into the incident found that a menacing did happen between two people who knew each other.
Following this, the suspect, identified as 24-year-old New Rochelle resident Fernando Gonzalez, was arrested. When officers confiscated the gun used during the incident, they discovered that it was a "ghost gun" that had no serial number.
Police also confiscated a rifle, shotgun, revolver, AR pistol, and a second "ghost gun" from Gonzalez's home, according to Coyne.
Both ghost guns are believed to be 9mm handguns.
Gonzalez was charged with the following:
- Second-degree criminal possession of a weapon;
- Two counts of criminal possession of a firearm;
- Two counts of fourth-degree criminal possession of a weapon;
- Third-degree criminal possession of an assault weapon;
- Unlawful possession of an ammo-feeding device;
- Second-degree menacing.
Gonzalez will be arraigned in court on Wednesday, May 10.
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