Taggers get into altercation with neighborhood residents, gun fired.

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A tagger produced something more lethal than a spray can
Thursday afternoon, which resulted in his arrest.

Adam Hunter Donleypeers, 24, was taken into custody after he
allegedly fired a gun at someone trying to chase him and a group of young men
who were tagging an area of Delight Street
in Canyon Country.

According to Lt. Mark Hershey of the Santa Clarita Sheriff's station, the group was in the act of defacing property around 5:15 p.m. when a driver for United Parcel
Service stopped and told them to stop. The young men then started chasing the
UPS driver, when a man in the neighborhood ran out with a baseball bat to
defend the UPS driver. The group started to spread out and flee, but not before
Donleypeers fired a handgun in the man’s direction.

No one was hit by gunfire and the men fled the scene.

Using descriptions from the UPS driver and other witnesses,
detectives from the station’s COBRA were able to identify
the taggers and Donleypeers as the shooter, arresting him around 10 p.m. Thursday night.

Donleypeers, a Stevenson Ranch resident, was booked on
suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon and, if convicted, could face up to
four years in state prison. He is being held at the Santa Clarita Valley
sheriff’s station in lieu of $50,000. Donleypeers was also arrested in January of this
year on misdemeanor charges, with his arraignment scheduled in Santa Clarita
Superior Court on March 30