Threats, gunfire, and a house full of family

A Middle Smithfield Township man is facing felony charges after a Pennsylvania State Police complaint says he threatened to kill his own family and burn down the house before firing two or three shots inside it. According to the complaint, troopers were called to a home on Resica Falls Road on Aug. 31 after Daniel V. Morales, 70, became belligerently drunk, argued with family members over dinner, broke down his own bedroom door, and threatened to kill everyone in the house. Three family members got out before he fired the shots; a fourth, still inside, thought at first that Morales had shot himself. Bullet holes turned up in the first floor hallway, dining room and kitchen. A family member told police Morales has a drinking problem and has poured gas around the house before while threatening to burn it down. While in custody, Morales told police he was suicidal and never intended to hurt anyone else. He was already prohibited from owning a gun over a decades old robbery conviction in New York. He is charged with prohibited possession of a firearm, discharging a firearm into an occupied structure, terroristic threats, reckless endangerment and simple assault, and is due for formal arraignment Oct. 26 in front of Monroe County Court of Common Pleas Judge Jennifer Sibum.