{"id":181090,"date":"2026-05-01T10:56:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T10:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/181090\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T10:56:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T10:56:11","slug":"erie-county-man-faces-felony-charges-after-shooting-injures-2-in-hotel-parking-lot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/181090\/","title":{"rendered":"Erie County man faces felony charges after shooting injures 2 in hotel parking lot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A dispute over money escalated into a shooting, sending two people to the hospital. Charges have now been filed.<\/p>\n<p>BOSTON, N.Y. \u2014 An Erie County man is facing charges after being accused of shooting two people.<\/p>\n<p>Police in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo?fbid=1315660173991838&amp;set=a.207706641453869\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">City of Hornell<\/a> said they are investigating a shooting happened when a dispute over money escalated in a hotel parking lot. The police department said officers received a delayed complaint around noon on Monday from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wgrz.com\/crime\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Monroe County District Attorney\u2019s Office<\/a> regarding the incident.<\/p>\n<p>The shooting occurred in the parking lot of the Hampton Inn in Hornell. Investigators determined that an argument over money led to a single 9mm round being fired into the back of a fleeing vehicle carrying three adults.<\/p>\n<p>Two of the passengers were struck by the bullet and suffered injuries that were not considered to be life-threatening. Both were taken to Rochester General Hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Michael Grimmer, 58, of Boston was taken into custody by Hornell Police without incident around 5 p.m. Wednesday. He&#8217;s been charged with two felony counts of attempted assault; three felony counts of reckless endangerment; one felony count of criminal possession of a weapon; and one felony count of criminal use of a firearm.<\/p>\n<p>A search of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nycourts.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">New York State electric court filing system<\/a> did not provide any more information on Grimmer&#8217;s arrest or future court dates. He was arraigned in Steuben County Court.<\/p>\n<p>Police said the investigation remains ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A dispute over money escalated into a shooting, sending two people to the hospital. Charges have now been&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":181091,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[136,138,137],"class_list":["post-181090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181090\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}