An Illinois man was arrested Sunday in Wisconsin after allegedly drawing a gun during an argument over ice-fishing etiquette at Racine Harbor on Lake Michigan.
According to Fox6 in Milwaukee, the argument broke out when two men began to set up their shanty just yards from Justin Dilley and his girlfriend.
It was pre-dawn and the marina was deserted. Dilley told Fox6 that he approached the men in the hope of persuading them to set up farther away.
“It’s only us people by ourselves, nobody else is out here, I don’t know why you have to set up this close,” Dilley said. “I go, ‘I don’t understand you guys.’ ”
Dilley said one of the men got into his face while the other began waving a pistol “in my direction and all over the place.”
Dilley called 911 and officers with the Racine County Sheriff’s Office arrived and arrested Luis Herrera, 59, for disorderly conduct and endangering public safety with a weapon.
The gun was confiscated as evidence. Herrera is from Highland Park, Ill.
Said Dilley: “In my mind, I didn’t know what was going to happen. At first I thought I was going to get punched then I thought I was going to get shot.”
