"Accidental Shooting" at a complex. How would you respond?

[Dave Klein]

I just received the following email from my property manager. How would you respond? I'll let a few people give their opinion and then I'll share mine. I just purchased this building 3 months ago so these are all inherited tenants.


Hi
Dave, we had an incident at 123 Main St yesterday where unit 301
discharged a weapon into unit 201. Luckily no injuries. I've talked to
both tenants. Unit 201 is uncomfortable with the situation and has
indicated he wants to move if something is not done about the tenants in
301. Unit 301 claims this was an accident. The police were called but
we do not have a police report number as 201 had to leave for work and
301 wouldn't answer their door (according to 201).

We
have a few options. We can serve a 5-day notice for criminal activity,
which requires 301 to vacate the premises within 5 days. However, if
they do not vacate we need to pursue evictions at which point if they
appear in court, act contrite, and claim it was an accident, the judge
could throw the case out. Alternatively we could just terminate 301's
lease for the end of April (they are on a month to month lease
agreement). This assumes you want to do anything at all.
I
know we have a few units vacant at that building so I wanted to get
your approval before doing anything. I personally am on the fence
between a severe warning and a lease termination for 301. I do
understand accidents happen and I don't want a vacancy if we don't need
one.
We have not been out to take a look at damages yet but will get there as soon as we can.