Reporting is Silly

Former NBA player Lonny Baxter was arrested by uniformed Secret Service agents on Wednesday after shots were fired from a vehicle about two blocks from the White House...

Officers stopped the vehicle, which Baxter was driving, near the intersection of 17th and I streets in Northwest Washington.

“There were spent shell casings in plain view inside the vehicle,” Zahren said. Officers also recovered a handgun.

You know, one the surface, this seems like an interesting story. No one in their right mind would carry a gun near the White House, let alone discharge their weapon that close to the White House.

Then the reporting gets worse.

Baxter... was taken into custody around 2:30 a.m. after a witness flagged down a Secret Service agent and reported shots fired from a white sport-utility vehicle, said Secret Service spokesman Eric Zahren.

Kind of scary it took a civilian to alert the authorities to this situation. But, still, no big deal... until the end of the article.

Both Baxter, 27, and the vehicle’s passenger, 35-year-old Irvin Martin, were charged with carrying a pistol without a license and other firearms charges. It wasn’t immediately clear why they were allegedly firing the gun.

“We’re not sure at this point,” Zahren said. “There may be some subsequent charges if we discover some additional information.”

What are "other firearms charges"?

And what is the deal with "It wasn’t immediately clear why they were allegedly firing the gun." What is it? They allegedly fired a gun? Or they fired it?