A Snow Shoe man was arrested on Sunday after he allegedly attempted to rape a woman at gunpoint and fired a shot into a wall in his apartment.
Robert L. Collar, 59, is charged with felony counts of attempted rape by threat of forcible compulsion and discharging a firearm into an occupied structured, along with misdemeanor counts of terroristic threats, recklessly endangering another person and simple assault.
The woman told state police at Rockview that Collar was her boyfriend and that he had been drinking in his West Olive Street apartment on Sunday afternoon. When the woman refused his demand for sex, he retrieved a pistol, pointed it at her crotch and told her to take her pants off, according to an affidavit of probable cause.
After the woman refused again, Collar allegedly pointed the gun at a bedroom wall and fired a single shot.
While Collar was distracted, the woman managed to sneak away and flee to a nearby restaurant to wait for police, according to the affidavit.
Troopers surrounded the apartment and, after several attempts to contact him, eventually persuaded Collar to come out unarmed, police wrote.
Once in custody, Collar told police that he was not a danger, did not want to hurt anyone, cared about the woman and did not do anything wrong, according to the affidavit. He initially said his gun was in between couch cushions and he had not moved it in three weeks, but later admitted that he fired it into the wall or ceiling on Sunday afternoon, police wrote.
A trooper observed that Collar showed signs of impairment, including slurred speech, glass eyes, poor balance and an odor of alcohol, according to the affidavit.
During a search of the residence, troopers located the gun and the single bullet hole in a bedroom wall as described by the woman, as well as a spent bullet, police wrote
Collar was arraigned on Sunday night by District Judge Kelley Gillette-Walker, who denied bail.
A preliminary hearing is scheduled for July 2.
