Neighbor charged after stray bullet enters Wareham home, lands on bed

WAREHAM, Mass. — A Wareham man is being charged after accidentally firing his weapon, sending a stray bullet through the wall of a Wareham home on Thursday evening.

Matthew Capolino woke up to a loud bang, only to realize the bullet had pierced through his wall and landed on his bed.

"Waking up this morning I thought it was a bad dream, until I woke up and saw the bullet holes in my wall," said Capolino. "[It] pierced through that wall outside, went straight through our lampshade, ricocheted off this wall, and we found it underneath the pillow at the end of the bed."

Officers responded to the home on Quaker Road around 7:15 p.m. and determined no one was hurt.

Wareham Police said a neighbor, 50-year-old Christopher Poirier, had been handling his gun when he accidentally pulled the trigger.

Capolino says his 8-year-old daughter, who wasn't home at the time of the incident, sleeps in the room right next to his. He also has other two children, a 16 and a 17-year-old. While no one was hurt, the family says they're still shaken up.

"Extremely scared, you know?" said Capolino. "I have an 8-year-old daughter that lives in the room right next to us [and] 16 and 17-year-olds downstairs."

Poireir will be summoned to Wareham District Court on charges including discharging a firearm within 500 feet of a home, possession of a gun without a firearms ID card and reckless endangerment of a child.

"Luckily the kids weren't home when it happened, just me and my wife," said Capolino. "But it could've been, [it] could've been worse."

Boston 25 News tried reaching out to Poirier at home, but a woman who says she's a family friend said they had no comment.

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