Updated at 5:15 p.m.
No one was reported injured after a woman discharged a gun at a Burlington bar early Monday morning, according to a press release from the Burlington Police Department.
Police later arrested the woman when she returned to the bar on Monday night, police said.
The gunfire occurred at about 12:30 a.m. on Monday at the downtown bar Esox, the press release said. Acting Chief Jon Murad said in an email on Tuesday afternoon that Nishea Wilkerson, 39, of Philadelphia, returned to Esox around 7:30 p.m. on Monday. Staff at the bar then called 911.
Murad said Wilkerson was arrested on “anticipated charges of recklessly endangering another person and unlawful mischief.” A judge set $200 bail and conditions of release, but Wilkerson was transported to Chittenden Regional Correctional Facility in South Burlington for lack of bail.
More than an hour passed after the gunfire before anyone contacted authorities, police said, when someone called 911 to say that a woman had fired a gun inside the bar but she was no longer on scene. The bullet went through the floor and hit a pipe in the bar’s basement, causing water damage, according to police.
Police said they checked UVM Medical Center for any victims with gunfire injuries, but none were found.
This is the 26th time this year in which a gun has been discharged in a criminal manner in Burlington, according to police.