LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Louisville Metro Police arrested a man for reportedly shooting at officers and setting a house on fire in the Valley Station neighborhood Wednesday.
Aaron Sheehan, 37, was charged with 3 counts of wanton endangerment (first degree) and 4 counts of attempted murder of a police officer.
The judge on Thursday morning upped Sheehan's original bond from $150,000 to $1 million, despite pleas from a public defender saying he wouldn't be able to pay either.
According to LMPD's social media, police asked people to avoid the area around the 5100 block of Woodridge Lake Boulevard near the Gene Snyder, and anyone at a home was asked to shelter in place.
Lt. Col. Steve Healey said officers responded to a call of a domestic violence situation at Woodridge Lake Boulevard around 5:51 p.m.
When officers arrived, he said Sheehan started shooting at them.
"As the officers came down the street they were greeted by gunfire and at least one of our vehicles was hit," he said.
He added that no officers fired back.
During the incident, Healey said it is believed Sheehan somehow set the house on fire.
Sheehan surrendered after the house was up in flames Healey said; police were in the process of evacuating neighbors before he surrendered.
"It's a traumatic event, you know, living in your neighborhood and your hearing shots being fired and then all of a sudden there's a house on fire, you know, where the shots are being fired from," Healey said. "You have a large police presence, you have a large fire presence, I mean, you know, people shouldn't have to live and experience things like this."
He said all parties have been accounted for.
"We got here just as twilight was falling and we saw a lot of police in the neighborhood and they didn't have their lights on, we almost didn't know they were there and then we heard what sounded like firecrackers," Jennifer Stevens, one of the neighbors, said.
She ran inside a house with her family just doors away from where everything happened.
LMPD crime data shows in the last month there hasn't been a single violent crime in the area, and in the last year, there were six simple assaults.
Stevens said what happened was unusual for the area and that it's pretty quiet with a lot of families.
Firefighters and police stayed well into the night watching the home and marking the crime scene.
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