David Michael O'Connor, 55, of Byron, has been charged with attempted aggravated murder of a police officer, the Sheriff's Office has announced.
O'Connor is accused of firing a single round from a .22-caiber rifle from the window of his apartment at the Byron Hotel at Deputy Andrew Hale yesterday, blowing out the windows of Hale's patrol vehicle while Hale was performing a traffic stop in the parking lot of the Byron Arrow Mart.
Nobody was struck by the projectile and there were no injuries.
Hale was supported at the scene by Deputy Joseph Corona, who spotted a person in a second-floor window of hotel building.
O'Connor was taken into custody without incident.
He was initially charged with first-degree reckless endangerment and third-degree criminal mischief and held on $25,000 bail.
With the new charge, O'Connor is now being held in the Genesee County Jail on no bail.
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