The Alabama man accused of firing on a medical flight thought he was shooting at something else, according to court records.
Peter Matthew Ellison, 48, is charged with discharging a firearm into an occupied vehicle after a nurse was struck by a ricochet bullet during a predawn medical flight landing in an Autauga County pasture on Wednesday.
Court records state Ellison “shot multiple rounds at what he believed to be a drone was a LifeFlight medivac helicopter.”…