Belleville police seize 16 guns from man charged with shooting neighbor’s car

Mike Koziatek
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A Belleville man was charged Thursday with reckless discharge of a firearm and 16 counts of possession of a firearm with a revoked Firearm Owner’s Identification Card after his neighbor reported his car had been shot and police found 16 guns in the suspect’s home.

Jory M. McRaven, 39, of the 2200 block of Frank Scott Parkway, was arrested Tuesday, police said. He was being held in the St. Clair County Jail on Friday on the felony charges and has a detention hearing set for Monday. Court records do not list a defense attorney.

When police officers responded to McRaven’s home early Tuesday morning, they saw several firearms “in plain view through the window of the residence,” according to a news release from the Belleville Police Department.

After seeing the guns, the officers retreated and set up a perimeter around the residence.

When the resident left his home, officers tried to arrest him but he resisted, according to the news release.

“The suspect was eventually subdued and transported to Police Headquarters,” the news release stated.

Charging documents allege McRaven fired a shotgun into a parked car on Tuesday.

The documents also list 16 firearms seized by police. They include shotguns, rifles, a pistol and two “combo” rifle-shotguns. The brand names of the weapons include Beretta, Jennings, Mossberg, Remington and Winchester.

It all started after a Belleville resident heard a loud noise around 4 a.m. Tuesday in the 2200 block of Frank Scott Parkway, according to a news release. He checked on his dogs and “did not discover any issues.”

However, he then checked his surveillance camera and saw his neighbor walking with a gun toward his house, the news release said.

A little over an hour later, he went outside to his car and saw that it had been struck with a gunshot. That’s when he called the police.

The charging documents do not indicate why McRaven’s Firearm Owner’s Identification Card, or FOID card, had been revoked, and a spokeswoman for Illinois State Police said the state’s Freedom of Information Act forbids the agency from releasing that information to the public.