Suspect Held After Shots Fired in Home

Police arrested a man early Thursday after he allegedly fired a gun inside his home in eastern Simi Valley during a domestic dispute.

At 2:45 a.m., officers were called to a house in the 1500 block of Flowerdale Street by neighbors who said they heard a man and wife arguing inside, according to Simi Valley Police Sgt. Bob Gardner.

Officers said they heard someone inside mention a gun, Gardner said. Just then, a woman ran outside.

While the officers were questioning the woman, a man ran from the house. Officers ordered him to stop, but he refused and went back inside.

Fearing the man was going to get a weapon, officers followed him inside, and after a brief struggle, he was taken into custody.

The man was identified as Michael Wayne Crowder, 46. During the argument, Gardner said, Crowder fired at least two shots inside the home.

No one was seriously injured, but a guest of the couple was hit in his finger by shrapnel, Gardner said.

On Thursday, Crowder was being held at Ventura County Jail on suspicion of battery on a cohabitant, making terrorist threats and discharging a firearm in a grossly negligent manner, according to a jail spokesman. Bail was set at $50,000.