I am married to the biological father, We live together. The people who adopted my son are my husbands brother and sister in law. We are all involved and we live all but 10 miles from each other. They found out I was pregnant and we agreed to do a private adoption. They got a lawyer through a friend at their job. I had child in April. He will be 4 months old on the 25th. Now that it's almost finalized they tell me, They were relieved that adoptive fathers "gun related crime" was undiscovered. When I looked into it I found out that he was in prison for 3 yrs for trying to shoot his girlfriend (now wife) with a rifle he was drunk missed and shot and killed her dog. He was arrested and charged for both crimes. For some reason beyond me the background check did not show his "gun" related crime. Happened in 2001. I am adding the news article from the newspaper when it happened X refers to him. If I am missing anything else? Tell me Please
BELOW - NEWS ARTICLE FROM THE INCIDENT (names removed)
MAN SENTENCED FOR SHOOTING AT GIRLFRIEND
MICHELE MORGAN BOLTON Staff writer
TROY -- A 36-year-old Johnsonville man who shot and killed his girlfriend's dog after firing a rifle at her as she sat in her car was sentenced Thursday to up to three years in state prison.
X, of 9 Lakeside Way, pleaded guilty to felony first-degree reckless endangerment and driving while intoxicated and animal cruelty, both misdemeanors.
The charges were related to a Jan. 21 incident outside his home in which, after an argument with the woman, he fired a .308 caliber rifle at her vehicle as she attempted to drive away.
X then killed her dog, a 2-year-old Rottweiler, and fled the scene.
The woman alerted State Police troopers, who were waiting when X returned.
He was subsequently arrested for driving while intoxicated after an alcohol test returned positive results.
``Mr. X's dangerous behavior could have injured or killed himself or someone else and that type of reckless action can't go unpunished,'' said Rensselaer County District Attorney Kenneth Bruno said. ``Everyone is lucky the victim wasn't physically injured but the same can't be said for an innocent dog that was the target of his rage.'' -- Michele Morgan Bolton