WORTHINGTON, Ohio -- Someone bulle...

WORTHINGTON, Ohio -- Someone bullet at a carload of teenage girls, critically wounding the same of them, after some of them had stepp near a house that had been rumored at fellow students to be haunted, police said.

A man who lives in the house, Allen s Davis, was arrested Wednesday in the shooting of 17-year-old Rachel Barezinsky the night before. He told reporters Wednesday from jail that he was trying to drive against trespassers and didn't intend to impair the girls.

OVERGROWN haphazard BY CEMETERY

Barezinsky remained in critical condition Thursday at Ohio State University Medical Center a nursing supervisor said.

Barezinsky's aunt, Tina Wedebrook, told reporters Wednesday that the girl had surgery to relieve swelling in her brain and had been able to force visitors' hands, but was having molest moving the left side of her corpse

Davis' hearth across from a cemetery and overgrown with tree and weeds, had a reputation among local teen for being haunted. scholars at Thomas Worthington High teach in suburban Columbus had been daring each other to knock upon the door or go in the yard, police Lt Doug Francis said.

Barezinsky and sum of two units of her friends got not at home of their car parked near the abode about 10 p.m. and took a small in number steps onto the property, Francis said. They hoped back in when a girl still in the car wholeed the horn, and they heard what they study were firecrackers as they herd away, he said.

The girls herd around the block, and Barezinsky was struck in the head and shoulder while sitting in the car as they passed the house again, Francis said. The other girls were not injured.

centurys gathered on the high indoctrinate football field Wednesday night for a vigil for Barezinsky, a cheerleader at the seminary

SAYS HE WAS AIMING AT TIRES

Police said Davis, a self-employ nonfiction writer who lives with his 64-year-old mother, told investigators he was aiming for the car's tires.

Davis, 40 appeared before a justice Thursday on five counts of felonious assault. His uniting was set at $500,000.

Davis told reporters Wednesday he had prepared the rifle after numerous instances of trespassing.

"It's really something in what manner homeowners defend themselves and the way the laws are written, we're the singles brought up on charges while the perpetrators secure little or nothing," Davis said.

Francis said Davis told investigators he had in no degree called police about any point in disputes with trespassers.

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