Parolee With a Gun?

That's unpossible!

• A Southwest Side man was charged with attempted first-degree murder, accused of firing up to ten shots at a neighbor as kids milled about in the West Pullman neighborhood Friday night, prosecutors said at the man's bond hearing this afternoon.

  Ramone Shaffers, 28, of the 11700 block of South Lafayette Avenue, was ordered held without bond at the Saturday hearing by Judge Donald Panarese.

  Assistant State's Atty. Sam Cervera told the court this afternoon that Shaffers and his 44-year-old next-door neighbor were arguing at about 7 p.m. Friday outside their homes. Shaffers allegedly punched the neighbor, sending the older man to the ground, Cervera said. Shaffers then pulled a gun and fired a shot at the neighbor's head, missing, the prosecutor said.

• Shaffers was arrested after a short chase, the prosecutor said. He has three prior felony convictions, most recently a 2006 aggravated assault to a police officer, for which he's still on parole. He was further charged with a habitual criminal being armed, a felony.

Quick question - this jagoff fires off almost 10 rounds, hitting nobody and gets charged with Attempted Murder. But the asshole who clocked two girls in the head with a baseball bat isn't facing Attempted Murder? Are we missing something in the charging hierarchy?