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While target shooting outside his Armstrong Township home on the afternoon of Oct. 8, Chas Tompkins 45, of 197 Chadless Drive, South Williamsport, fired an estimated 150 rounds from two handguns which "placed the public in danger," state police alleged in an affidavit. Tompkins told the troopers that he thought "it to be safe due to a backdrop he had constructed" outside his home. However, when the troopers inspected the backdrop, they discovered that bullets had passed through it as well as beyond it, and that from the downward angle Tompkins was firing, it was very possible for the bullets to travel into the path of motorists on Old Montgomery Pike Road, police alleged. Charged with recklessly endangering and disorderly conduct, Tompkins has since waived her preliminary hearing before Solomon and is free on $25,000 bail.