AUSTINTOWN — A young man was arrested Tuesday after allegedly shooting at a house and at several vehicles, including cars driving along Mahoning Avenue.

Mason Rusu, 18, of Austintown, made an initial appearance Wednesday morning in Mahoning County Court in Austintown on one charge of vandalism, a fifth-degree felony. Administrative Judge Scott Hunter set a preliminary hearing for Oct. 25 and imposed a $2,500 cash or surety bond, which Rusu posted Thursday.

A report from Austintown Police Department states that a concerned citizen approached an officer’s parked cruiser around 5:30 a.m. Tuesday to report that three young people in a Chevrolet Cruze were driving down Mahoning Avenue firing a pellet gun at passing traffic.

Initially, the officer searched the area but could not find the vehicle. Shortly after that, dispatch notified police that the vehicle had been seen at a home on Kleber Avenue, near where the officer received the original complaint.

According to the report, police arrived at the Kleber Avenue home, where residents told them a blue Chevrolet Cruze, driven by Madison Mayberry, 21, of Austintown, passed by the house while two males fired a pellet gun at the house and the vehicles parked there. They said the suspects shot at the house once around 4:30 a.m., returned a while later and shot at the home again, and did it once more just after 5:30 a.m.

In addition to several pellets that struck the house, considerable damage was done to a Nissan Altima and a Ford Explorer, mostly shattering the Explorer’s rear windshield and rear passenger side window. A neighbor’s home also was struck by pellets.

One of the residents told police that after the third incident, Mayberry got out of the car, approached the house and said the shooting was “just a prank.” He told police she fled when he started to confront her.

About two hours after the last incident, police pulled over Mayberry on Pembrook Avenue. She told police that Rusu and another man, Jonathan Webster, asked her to drive them to the house but did not tell her why. She was released at the time but was told that police would be contacting her to ask more questions.

Available court records do not show any charges yet against Webster, but a warrant has been issued for Mayberry’s arrest for complicity in a felony.