UPDATED: Man charged with firing shots at Webster Groves pub

KSDK -- Police have charged a man in connection with a shooting at a pub in Webster Groves Thursday night.

31-year-old Ryan Miller of St. Louis was charged with one count of discharging a firearm at a building and two counts of property damage.

The shooting happened just before ten Thursday night at Llywelyn's, a fixture that's been around since the 1970's, in Historic Webster. The shots were fired into the pub's front doors.

The pub was full of people when gun shots rang out. A number of glass windows are now marked by bullet holes on the front of the pub on West Moody Avenue.

Everyone in the tavern was rushed back into the kitchen when it happened. Fortunately no one was hit.

"We were standing there having some drinks, and we started hearing popping in the front of the restaurant," Llywelyn's patron Elizabeth Mayer told us. "It sounded like fire crackers to me, so I really didn't think anything of it. I guess I've never really heard gun shots before, then they started telling us to go to the back of the bar and into the kitchen."

Many inside said they didn't realize what was taking place.

"It sounded like someone was hammering, like something in the front. We were kind of halfway through, like halfway in between the front and the back, and it literally, I thought someone was pounding on the front door, or someone dropped something," said Llywelyn's patron Emily Robichaux, who witnessed the shooting. "I had no idea what was going on."

People inside the pub were not allowed to leave until police were done with their initial investigation.

Robichaux tells us she didn't feel scared until after the incident. She says that she'd felt secure because she was in Webster.

"No, I mean like afterwards...when I was told I couldn't leave the bar, I was scared, but when it first happened, I was like, we're in Webster, I am perfectly safe," said Robichaux.