WINONA, Minn. – An Elba man, Marshall Edward Kieffer, 19, was arrested after gunshots were fired during a fight behind a house on the Far East End. Police had been called about 10:45 p.m. When they arrived, things had quieted down. Witnesses said the combatants, two adult men, were gone. Then Kieffer walked up, apparently from nowhere, and asked what was going on. In the course of conversation, officer said, Kieffer admitted that he had a gun in his car nearby, that he had been in a fight, and that he fired his gun three or four times. Officers found shell casings on the ground. Kieffer was booked for recklessly discharging a firearm and carrying a pistol while intoxicated. The incident was in the 500 block of Mankato Avenue. As best as police could determine, nobody was wounded by the gunfire or hurt in the fight.
Kieffer. Tentative charges: Carrying a pistol drunk, firing it recklessly.