MUNCIE, Ind. — A Muncie man allegedly fired a gun inside an IHOP after he confronted a cook about having sex with his wife, eventually leading police on a high-speed chase in Muncie that resulted in him crashing his SUV into a house.
According to documents filed in Delaware County, 28-year-old Austen Wable was preliminarily charged with:
- One count of criminal recklessness – shooting a firearm into an inhabited building, a Level 5 felony
- One count of intimidation with a deadly weapon, a Level 5 felony
- One count of unlawful carrying of a handgun, a Level 5 felony
- One count of pointing a firearm, a Level 6 felony
- One count of resisting law enforcement with a vehicle, a Level 6 felony
- One count of OWI: Endangering a person, a Level 6 felony
- Misdemeanor counts of resisting law enforcement and DWS.
On Thursday afternoon, officers with the Muncie Police Department were dispatched to an IHOP location in reference to a subject with a gun. The documents said a caller reported that a man, later identified as Wable, came into the IHOP with a gun and had shot it…