POULSBO – A 30-year-old Silverdale man was charged with assault after he allegedly fired several shots at a motorist.

Dale Richard Johnson, 30, who has a Silverdale post office address, was charged with assault in the second degree.

According to a Kitsap County Sheriff’s Office report, the male victim had been driving his pickup truck near the 16000 block of Viking Way NW Sept. 6 around 11:39 p.m. when several rocks struck his vehicle. The man saw two kids run up a nearby driveway with a flashlight, and so he turned the truck around to speak with them.

The man walked up the driveway to a house and asked a lady and a girl standing in front of the home if they had any children. The lady told him to wait and went inside.

Johnson then came outside and asked the man what he was doing. The man explained that his truck had been hit by rocks and that he saw a flashlight in the driveway.

Johnson went inside and the man could hear yelling and sounds of things being thrown around coming from inside. Johnson allegedly came back outside armed with a black handgun and told the man to get off his property. The man said “OK” and started to leave. As the man returned to his truck and began to drive away, he heard six gun shots fired quickly. He heard some of the shots ricochet off the ground near the truck and drove faster.

The man contacted deputies, who arrived at the home around 12:12 a.m. As several deputies walked up the driveway, they were informed by dispatchers that Johnson had just called to report the incident that occurred about 33 minutes earlier. The deputies contacted Johnson and handcuffed him.

According to the report, Jonson’s eyes were bloodshot and he stumbled while walking. His blood alcohol level was later measured at .175.

Deputies asked Johnson what happened and Johnson said he saw a strange man and woman in his front yard and said his 15-year-old daughter was terrified. Johnson grabbed his model 1911 pistol, a shotgun and ammunition and went outside to show the “intruders” his “self defense mechanism, 1911” as it “was best to scare them off.”

According to the report, Johnson said the victim began to leave and he followed him and fired three rounds as the victim walked across the yard. Johnson said he fired another four rounds as the victim started to drive away.

Johnson told deputies he meant the gunshots to be a “noise threat.”

Johnson told deputies he had been drinking and that he felt threatened that the victim was standing in his yard.

Deputies retrieved the firearms from Johnson’s vehicle and photographed them.

Johnson was arrested and transported to jail and charged with three counts of assault in the first degree and one count of DUI. Bail was set at $105,000.