Brookfield Police Chief Joel Dixon reports a Brookfield man was arrested after he reportedly fired a gun one time in a residence Monday night.
Forty-year-old Jeffery William Lorton is charged with a felony of discharging a firearm in a habitable structure and unlawful use of a firearm.
Dixon says he was a convicted felon and should not have had a gun.
A department canine uncovered a gun outside the house.
Dixon reported that Lorton was transferred to the Macon County Jail.