Two southeast Kansas men face charges related to an incident just before Christmas that ended with one of them getting peppered with shotgun pellets. Allen County authorities filed aggravated battery charges against Roger Welch of rural Moran and trespassing and attempted theft charges against 17-year old Zeffrey Tyler Doolittle of Mapleton. The incident in which Doolittle suffered the shotgun pellet wounds unfolded the night of Dec. 23 on Welch’s land, about five miles northwest of Bronson. The sheriff's office says someone had been stealing gasoline from a tank, and Welch happened to be there when a person stopped nearby and the driver got out carrying a five-gallon gas can. When the person unhooked the gas nozzle, Welch reportedly fired a shot into the air. As the person, later identified as Doolittle, ran off Welch fired a second time. The teen's minor injuries were treated at Allen County Hospital. The Register reports neither Welch nor Doolittle was arrested, rather both will be summoned to court appearances that have yet to be scheduled.
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