By Darrell Halen 

Two men face charges after one of them allegedly pointed a handgun at a group of people outside a Salem restaurant.

Police said that Jack Buzzell, 22, of Salem and Robert Mears, 26, of Haverhill, Mass., were leaving T-Bones Restaurant around midnight on Wednesday, Dec. 12.

When Buzzell drove out of the parking lot too fast, the group yelled at him. Buzzell apparently took offense, backed up his truck, got out of his vehicle and pointed a gun at the group, according to Deputy Chief William Ganley.

One member of the group thought the gun was fake and tried to take it away from him, Ganley said.

“He (Buzzell) didn’t know them,” Ganley said. “They had been in the same lounge.”

The men fled, but police used the vehicle’s registration to track them down at a residence in Salem. Police learned that Mears had hidden the gun, Ganley said.

Buzzell is charged with reckless conduct with a firearm and criminal threatening with a firearm. Mears is charged with falsifying physical evidence and being a felon in possession of a firearm.