The silence in the streets of Senita was abruptly disturbed with gunfire last July.
Neighbors on West Cowpath Road were left in knots July 25 after police left their street with no one in handcuffs, even after a convicted felon and career criminal at the scene admitted to firing off a few rounds in what he called self-defense.
“I felt my life was in danger, so I fired back,” 47-year-old Shawan Harris, now 48, told cops in body camera footage released Wednesday. He said people shot at him out of a moving silver pickup truck. Police seized Harris’ handgun but did not lodge charges.
Cops found bullet holes in one car, with a bullet in the front seat.
“I got a nice, big f*cking hole in my roof,” neighbor Dante Scudella told officers while pointing at his car.
Two weeks ago, Harris was tased after reportedly slamming his wife’s head in her car door while trying to steal the car. Three months ago, he was arrested after threatening to shoot his stepson.
Harris was charged with attempted murder, kidnapping, aggravated robbery and felonious assault in Ohio in 1997. He pleaded guilty to the felonious assault in a plea deal and the other charges were dropped.
He was charged with drug trafficking and pleaded guilty to a lesser charge of attempted drug trafficking before moving to Arizona. He was also found guilty on multiple counts of domestic violence, threatening and harassing someone over the phone, seven counts of criminal trespass and reckless endangerment.
