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Gunshots Fired at Victim's Home for Second Time

Inside the Police Reports: Bullets were fired into a house for a second time within months.

Gun shots were fired through a woman’s home earlier this month, the second time since July. No one was injured in either incident.

The victim, 45, lives on Bradford Court and reported hearing a gunshot go through her bedroom at 10:23 p.m. on Sept. 5, while she was sleeping. According to the police report, she didn’t hear or see who shot the gun but found the bullet on the floor at the base of her bed.

The woman suspects someone she knows was responsible, the report said.

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Police noted that bullet holes were found in the window and wall of the bedroom.

The other gunshot incident occurred July 4 around 11 p.m. While the woman was reading on her bed, a bullet went through the bedroom window, two walls and into an adjacent room.

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She said the bullet was so close that she felt it go by her arm. Three children (two of them hers and one friend, all under 12) were in the adjacent room.  

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