MONROE, La. – The Louisiana estate of the “Duck Dynasty” family was the target of a drive-by shooting of eight to 10 shots Friday afternoon. The Ouachita Parish Sheriff’s Office say they have a man in custody.
“We were pretty shook up,” reality TV and outdoors star Willie Robertson said in a Sunday interview with USA Today. “It looks like they were just spraying bullets across my property.”
Robertson said many members of the family are living at his and wife Korie’s home during the coronavirus crisis, among them daughter Sadie Robertson, who also starred on “Dancing with the Stars,” and her new husband Christian Huff.
“Nobody was outside at the time, but everybody had been out about five minutes before,” Robertson said. “I had just gone to the store when it happened.”
According to Robertson, one of the rounds traveled through the bedroom window of the home where son John Luke Robertson lives with his wife Mary Kate McEachern and their infant child, but nobody in the family was injured.
“It was broad daylight,” Robertson added.
The property and houses on it are behind a fence and gate and located far off of the road.
Witnesses said several gunshots were fired from a beige Ford F-250 pickup truck, and two homes were hit.
The suspect vehicle was captured on a surveillance camera.
His daughter Sadie Robertson took to Instagram to confirm the report: “hi, yes the news is true if you’ve seen it. We had someone shoot at our property. Just wanted to say we are all okay. It shook us all up of course, but we are just so thankful everyone in our family is okay. Especially after one of the bullets flew through the window of my brothers home… The timing of where we were at the time was crazy protection because we had all just gone inside. We have been resting on Psalm 91 and each other’s gratitude for all being okay ❤️ thank you for your prayers.”
The Ouachita Parish Sheriff’s Office in Monroe, Louisiana, arrested Daniel King Jr., 38, for aggravated assault in a drive by shooting and criminal neglect of family, USA Today reported on Monday.
Details regarding his arrest were not provided.
King Jr. was booked into OCC. His bond was set at $150,000.
