An 82-year-old man was arrested Monday afternoon after allegedly firing a handgun at three teenage boys he believed were trespassing on his property near a park in the San Roque area, according to Santa Barbara Police spokesperson Sergeant Ethan Ragsdale.
Ragsdale said that SBPD officers were dispatched to Stevens Park around 3:30 p.m. on September 4 for a report of an “adult male firing a handgun in the area.”
When police arrived, they learned that the older man, identified as Santa Barbara resident Roy Eugene Stephenson Jr., had allegedly seen the three teenagers — ages 15, 16, and 18 — in the San Roque Creek bed next to the park. According to Ragsdale, Stephenson “believed they were trespassing” on his property nearby.