Ice cream man loses cool; shoots at customer

OKLAHOMA CITY (Reuters) - An Oklahoma ice cream man opened fire on a customer after a summer ice cream sale turned sour.


Police in Enid, about 75 miles (120 km) north of Oklahoma City, said on Tuesday they arrested Markus Miller, 29, an ice cream truck driver for Summer Song for taking a pot shot at a teenager.


According to police, an 18-year-old woman approached Miller's ice cream truck and the conversation degenerated into a heated argument.


Miller is suspected of taking out a pistol and firing two shots at the feet of the woman. She was struck on the collarbone-area by either a bullet fragment or debris from the shots, police said on Tuesday.


Miller was arrested in his ice cream truck a short distance from the incident and police recovered a hand gun from the vehicle, they said.


"It is not a normal or legal thing, anywhere in the country to carry a handgun without a permit while selling ice cream," said Sergeant Eric Holtzclaw, a spokesman with the Enid Police Department.


Miller could face up to 10 years in jail.