Details emerge about Saturday's incident with a bat and a gun

Lacey The Boy was arrested Saturday after allegedly pointing a handgun at someone near the 4B's restaurant. He is also facing federal charges unrelated to the incident in Havre.

Havre city police officers were sent to the 600 Block of West 1st Street Saturday morning after police dispatch received several reports about a violent incident involving weapons.

Justice Court documents say that one caller reported that a person fired a gun in the vicinity of TownHouse Inns and shot out the window of a vehicle. Another caller said that “several males” were fighting in front of the Town House Inn and they “have a baseball bat and possibly a handgun.” The third caller, according to the report, told dispatch the people involved left east on 1st Street as one group of men got into a gold car and the other in a Chevy pickup truck with a broken passenger side rear window.

Officers located the pickup with the broken window and found a man, who was the driver and a 16-year-old and a 9-year-old.

The driver told officers the 9-year-old was sitting near the window when it was broken by a man with a baseball bat. Some broken glass got in the 9-year-old's eye and made him bleed. The 9-year-old was transported to Northern Montana Hospital by ambulance.

The driver told officers he came to Havre to give someone a ride back to Rocky Boy. The person the driver picked up started hitting him and that's when they stopped in the Town House Inn parking lot.

Two people in a gold car followed the pickup into the parking lot, according to the file. The men got out of the gold car and one of them shattered the passenger rear window of the pickup with a baseball bat, causing the 9-year-old's injury.

The driver told officers that, during this time, The Boy pointed a handgun at him. The document says that afterward the driver “became afraid of Lacy and drove off.” The driver told officers that The Boy never fired the gun. He just pointed it at them.

“Officers did not locate any evidence that the rear window was shot out,” the file says.

The report further says that two witnesses provided the police department with videos of the incident.

The video from 4B's shows the pickup parked in the turning lane in front of the restaurant. The gold car is parked across the street, in front of the Heberly Engineering. Two men are standing on the sidewalk near the gold car.

“One can be seen holding a baseball,” the document says of the video.

The other man, identified by the driver of the pickup as The Boy, has an object in his hand “that is consistent with a handgun,” the charging document says.

The driver and the 16-year-old are seen standing in the street around the pickup. At one point, charging documents say, the man with the bat and The Boy walk toward the car, and “it appears” that The Boy puts the gun behind his back. The Boy gets in the driver's seat, the man with the bat in the passenger. The gold car “races” out of the parking lot, and as it does, Lacy extends his arm out and points the gun at the driver and the 16-year-old, who are still in the street. The document says that the video makes it clear that there are three people in the car.

Deputies found the gold car, and after a warrant was granted, officers searched a house that was registered to The Boy, where less than 60 grams of marijuana and a marijuana grinder were found, the document says.. The Boy was arrested during the search warrant service.

The Boy is being charged with assault with a weapon, criminal endangerment, assault, criminal mischief and criminal possession of dangerous drugs. He is being held on a $200,000 bond. The Boy also has a federal felony charge of possession of firearms by a person subject to an order of protection against him.

Havre police had not responded to equests for information about the man with the bat by printing deadline this morning.