Police: No injuries in wrong bonfire shooting

Suspect arrested after eight-hour standoff with police

Published  10:22 AM EDT Oct 01, 2013

Authorities say an upstate New York man fired a gun at a group of teens around a bonfire in the mistaken belief that he had been beaten at their party.

Police in Fort Edward in Washington County tell local media that 19-year-old Daimon Diresta got into a scuffle at a bonfire party last weekend and later went back with a gun.

But police say he went to another party being held nearby early Sunday morning and fired a rifle at a group of teens at a bonfire. No one was hit.

Police tracked him to his Fort Edward home, where he eventually surrendered after an eight-hour standoff.

Diresta was charged with criminal possession of a weapon, tampering with physical evidence and reckless endangerment.

It couldn't be determined if he had a lawyer.

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