Man arrested following shooting

WASILLA — A man is in jail after Wasilla police say he fired shots at a group of people following an argument at Tailgaters Sports Bar and Grill early Tuesday morning.

Donald Lee, 22, of Wasilla, is charged with felony counts of attempted murder, assault, eluding arrest and criminal mischief.

Officers say Lee and a group of bar patrons had an argument inside the bar, after which Lee left, grabbed a pistol and when two people came outside he opened fire.

Police say that after the shooting, which was called in at 12:44 a.m., Lee left the area. Officers were on him in short order, having spotted him driving east on the Parks Highway. Lee didn’t stop, though, and officers eventually nabbed him near Fairview Loop.

On scene later that morning, officers had cordoned off the bar’s parking lot behind yellow police tape. Two moved about the lot using, essentially, surveying equipment to collect data points for a scene-mapping tool.

Assistant District Attorney Mike Walsh spoke with the officers. Sgt. Kelly Swihart searched for slugs in the parking lot and knelt beside a pile of broken glass next to a van that had been damaged in the shooting.

The van, painted with the logos of a local cab company, had a number of windows broken. The folks who were being shot at ducked behind it and escaped injury, according to a police press release.

Lee was jailed at the Mat-Su Pre-Trial Facility in lieu of $250,000 bail.