A barrage of gunfire rang out near the downtown public library at 10th and Felix Wednesday morning. Fortunately nobody was hurt.
St Joseph Police arrested 40-year-old Cortez Villanueva on a class-A felony charge of unlawful use of a weapon. Villanueva was booked into the Buchanan County Jail under a 10-thousand dollar bond.
Commander Jim Connors says Villanueva suspect lists a Kansas City, Missouri address.
The shots were fired shortly before 9:30 a.m. in the Library Square parking lot under the Joyce Raye Patterson Senior Citizen Center. Connors says officers were able to take the suspect into custody without serious incident. They also recovered a weapon and several shell casings.
