A 20-year-old Minot man is accused of shooting another man in the ankle on Feb. 6. Alvaro Javier Beltran is charged with Class C felony aggravated assault and two counts of Class C felony reckless endangerment.

According to the probable cause affidavit filed with the court, authorities received a 911 call on Feb. 6 from a person who said a man had been shot outside a southeast Minot residence. The man could be heard screaming in pain in the background. The alleged victim, Deandre Peterson, was taken to Trinity Hospital for treatment.

Two men, Byron Patton and his twin brother, Brandon Patton, were at the residence. Byron Patton told police he was in the living room of the residence at the time they heard gunshots fired outside. Byron Patton ran upstairs to get his own gun and told police he fired his gun three to four times outside his open front door to scare off the initial shooter. Brandon Patton told police he had been inside the living room and went outside to start the grill. Brandon Patton said he saw a red truck drive past and someone inside yelled the “N” word. He couldn’t see who was in the truck. He went inside the house as Peterson was walking out. Brandon Patton said Peterson then ran back into the house and said “They’re shooting, they’re shooting” and said he had been hit.

Officers found four .45 caliber shell casings just inside the door of the home and three 9mm casings in the kitchen. Peterson was lying on the floor at the back of the living room, near the stairs, when emergency personnel arrived. Police found one bullet hole in the door, one in the doorframe, two in the wall between the kitchen and the living room, and four in the outside siding between the door and kitchen window. Neighbors also reported seeing the red pickup leaving the area and provided video.

Further investigation led authorities to Beltran, who was allegedly a passenger in the vehicle driven by a male juvenile on Feb. 6 and who allegedly shot Peterson. The boy had exchanged a text message with one of the Patton brothers in which Patton demanded money from the boy. The boy, who was being held at the Ward County Juvenile Detention Center, reportedly had told a witness that Beltran was a passenger in the vehicle and had fired at the residence. The boy told one witness the shooting was over a “bad car deal” and money owed. Another witness reportedly said that Peterson had robbed the boy a few weeks earlier. A gun used in the shooting was supposedly turned over to a man in Westhope to be buried, but the man gave the guns to someone else, who eventually turned them over to police.

Beltran is also separately charged with possession of methamphetamine and carrying a concealed loaded firearm, both Class A misdemeanors, dating back to Feb. 15.

He was also charged Tuesday with carrying a concealed firearm, a Class A misdemeanor, and carrying a loaded firearm in a vehicle, a Class B misdemeanor. According to a probable cause affidavit filed with the court, a Ward County deputy arrested Beltran and Sydney Brooks Pearcy, 27, on Tuesday after they received a report that two people were passed out in a red truck outside a trailer in Holiday Village. The deputy was afraid they might be dead or having a medical emergency when he responded because Beltran was hunched over the wheel of the vehicle and Pearcy was leaning over with her mouth open. The deputy opened the door and Beltran woke up, seemed dazed and confused and had red eyes with constricted pupils.

An ambulance was called to check on Beltran and Pearcy. The deputy alerted a dispatcher and learned that Beltran had outstanding warrants. The dispatcher also conveyed that Beltran had allegedly said he was going to “shoot it out with police next time he was contacted.” The deputy spotted a pistol lying under a towel in the vehicle. He told Beltran about the warrants and grabbed him by the wrist to get him out of the vehicle. The deputy wrote that he didn’t want to draw attention to the firearm until Beltran was under arrest and secured. Law enforcement searched the vehicle for other weapons and also located a loaded 7.62 x 39 magazine that Beltran had been sitting on. On the passenger side of the vehicle, where Pearcy had been sitting, deputies found a white and gold AK47 rifle wrapped in a sweatshirt on the floorboard.

Pearcy has a felony convicton for possession of drug paraphernalia dating back to November 2017. In June 2017, Pearcy was sentenced to 30 days in jail for driving while high on meth with her 5-year-old daughter in the car. Pearcy was charged Tuesday with Class C felony prohibited possession of a firearm by a felon.