2 BROTHERS DENY TERRORIZING BAR.

Byline: Karen Maeshiro Daily News Staff Writer

Two brothers pleaded not guilty to shooting up Lake Hughes' Rock Inn after they were thrown out for using foul language while shooting pool.

Customers and the bartender ducked down as .22-caliber rifle bullets came through the window of the restaurant and bar, but no one was hurt.

``We dropped to the floor and screamed,'' bartender Patricia Franco said. ``A bullet fragment ended up in a customer's hair. Everybody was shaken up.''

Tracked down through a license plate number, Donald Colbert, 25, of Temple City and Edward Colbert, 27, of Pasadena are charged with attempted murder in the shooting that occurred shortly before 7:30 p.m. Feb. 16.

Both men pleaded not guilty to attempted murder and shooting at an inhabited dwelling and are scheduled to return to Lancaster Superior Court for a pretrial appearance July 30. Both are being held in lieu of $500,000 bail.

The two brothers were in the restaurant shooting pool when they started to get ``obnoxious'' and began using foul language, Franco said. Franco said she asked them to be quiet three times, but they didn't comply.

When she asked them to leave, one of them swore at her and both came toward her. At that time, the owner of the building, Paul Koslo, escorted the men outside, Franco said.

``I went to the window to get their car plate number, in case they were going to throw a rock through the window,'' Franco said. ``I noticed one opening the trunk and loading a big weapon.''

The restaurant door was locked and everyone inside the restaurant, about a dozen people, including two infants, fled to the kitchen, Franco said.

After a few minutes passed, nothing happened, so everyone came back out.

``That's when they drove by and shot through the windows,'' Franco said. ``One customer was across the street on the pay phone and saw the whole thing.''