Shots fired outside Ottawa bar

Ottawa police are looking for a suspect they say was involved in a barroom brawl that spilled into the street and led to gunshots Thursday night.

Police arrested two Ottawa men shortly after 11:15 p.m. outside Pepper’s Lounge, 111 N. Main St. : a 43-year-old on suspicion of aggravated assault and illegally firing a gun, and 24-year-old on suspicion of disorderly conduct and battery, police said.

The men are patrons of the same bar, and the fight stemmed from a construction employment dispute, said Capt. Ron Puterbaugh, an Ottawa police spokesman. He said police think the fight began inside and that the 43-year-old man later fired a .32-caliber Derringer twice into the air outside the bar.

No one was seriously injured, and the man being sought , whom Puterbaugh described only as “a white male,” isn’t suspected of a firearms offense.


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