Man accused of firing 15 shots into occupied Myrtle Beach home
MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. (WBTW) — A man is accused of firing 15 shots into an occupied Myrtle Beach home Saturday, according to documents obtained by News13.
Three additional bullets also hit a nearby motel, documents show.
Jacob Knight Mechling was charged with public intoxication, sale or delivery of pistol to unlawful persons, unlawful carrying of a pistol, and four counts of discharging a firearm into a dwelling.
Mechling is currently booked into the J. Rueben Long Detention Center under a $110,465 bond, according to online jail records.
An officer was dispatched to the area of 7th Ave N. for a shooting incident. Once the officer arrived, they immediately began to look for the shooter, documents show.
Mechling was located and detained behind the building, according to documents.
After Mechling was detained, the officer noticed 15 bullet holes within the victim’s property and three more bullets into a nearby motel, documents show.
From there, the officer spoke to the first victim who was “visibly shaken and disturbed by the incident”, documents show.
The report states that she was very upset and needed time to breathe and calm down. After she calmed down, she explained to the officer that she was sitting in her room when she heard multiple gunshot wounds go off through her wall.
The woman said she could not recall how many shots were fired, but she felt pieces of the wall fall on her shoulder. Three other people were in their rooms at the time of the shooting, and no one was hurt, according to the report.
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Taylor Ford is a digital journalist for News13. She joined the News13 team in January 2023. Taylor is a Florence native and covers the Pee Dee out of News13’s Florence Bureau. Read more of Taylor’s work here.
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