A MAN has appeared before Blackburn magistrates charged in connection with a "drive by" incident in which a grandfather was shot with a BB gun.
Robert Evans, 19, of Higher Croft Road, Lower Darwen, was sent on bail to Burnley Crown Court charged with assaulting Paul McKeown causing actual bodily harm after he was hit in the face with a BB pellet and possessing an imitation firearm, a BB gun, with intent to cause Paul McKeown to believe that unlawful violence would be used against him.
He will appear before the Crown Court on October 16.
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