Burnsville Woman Charged with Threatening Women with Air Rifle

A Burnsville woman has been charged with two felonies after she allegedly pointed an air rifle equipped with a rifle scope at a group of women who were changing a tire in the parking lot of her apartment building.

Jamie Linn Hom, 32, is charged with two felonies: second-degree assault with a dangerous weapon, which carries a maximum penalty of seven years in prison and a $14,000 fine, and making terroristic threats, which has a maximum penalty of five years in prison and a $10,000 fine. 

Hom remains in the Dakota County Jail on a $60,000 bond. An omnibus hearing in her case is scheduled for April 24 in Dakota County District Court in Hastings.

According to the criminal complaint, Burnsville police were called to an apartment building in the 1500 block of Highway 13 West on March 24. 

Three women told police that they were in the apartment complex’s parking lot changing a tire when Hom, who lives in a ground-floor apartment, shouted at them through her window to get away from her truck, which was parked next to the vehicle whose tire was being changed.

The women said Hom pointed a long gun out the window at them while she was yelling. Two of the women said the rifle was equipped with a scope.

One of the witnesses told police that a man who lives with Hom was in the parking lot when the alleged victims called police. The man went into the apartment, and when officers arrived, Hom was gone, according to the complaint.

Police found an air rifle matching the description of the one that the women saw behind a bedroom door in Hom’s apartment.  They also found a metal rifle scope lying on top of the bed, the complaint says.