WATER VALLEY, Miss. (WMC) - Deputies with the Lafayette County Sheriff’s Office announced an arrest after shots were fired outside Anchor Baptist Church on Highway 7 South on Sunday.

According to the sheriff’s office, deputies responded to a shots-fired call at about 10 a.m. Church members told investigators that a man sitting in the passenger seat of a silver SUV shouted profanity and obscenities at congregation members and then fired several shots into the air with a handgun.

A short time later, deputies located the vehicle and took the passenger, 34-year-old Christopher Ray Reed, into custody. Deputies said Reed appeared to be intoxicated at the time of the arrest.

Fortunately, no one was injured in the incident.

Reed has been charged with making a terroristic threat and is being he

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