Authorities arrested a suspect on Friday after gunshots were fired at a car in Battlement Mesa.

The Garfield County Sheriff’s Office said in a news release that deputies on early Thursday morning took a “shots fired” call at the Willow Park Apartments, and upon arrival found a vehicle that had been “shot up.”

There were no victims or suspects at the scene, but within four hours sheriff investigators had identified a likely suspect. They obtained a search warrant for the suspect’s residence at the Willow Park Apartments and executed the warrant Friday morning with the help of the local SPEAR (Special Problems Enforcement and Response) team and the federal Homeland Security Investigations agency.

The sheriff’s office said that several weapons were recovered in executing the warrant, inclu

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