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Raining bullets in Bon Air

By JOELINE THOMAS

A STRAY bullet found its way into the bedroom of a Bon Air West resident while she was sound asleep last Tuesday night.

Pamela Mc Coon never thought she would have experienced anything like it in her three years living in the area.

“My daughter was doing some work on the computer in the living-room some minutes before it happen,” fumed the mother of one.

Bon Air

This is the developing community.

“When she was finished with the computer, she came into my room and told me that she would be bunking with me that night.

“She leaned over the dressing table to switch off the lights before joining me in bed.

“A few minutes after, about 10.20 p.m., we were both suddenly awakened by a loud crashing sound.”

The frightened woman flew out of bed and switched on the lights to discover fine wooden splinters scattered across her dressing table.


“The only part of my house the wood could have come from was the roof, so I looked at my ceiling and noticed a hole,” she said.

Immediately, the frightened woman phoned the Arouca Police Station and a crew of officers responded.

Officers from the Arouca Police Station called in investigators from the Criminal Investigations Division (CID) to further look into the matter.

Upon completion of their investigations, officers confirmed that the loud noise Mc Coon heard that night came from a gun and the hole in her roof from a bullet.

Mc Coon preferred to remain tight-lipped as to whether or not the bullet was found.

Splinters

Splinters on the dressing
table.

Bullet hole

This is the bullet hole in
the ceiling.

The woman pointed out: “This is a residential area and if this kind of thing starts going on here then what will take place in a few years?”

The shocking discovery left her 16-year-old daughter and other residents baffled as to how the bullet found its way through her roof.

The confused homeowner further related that the incident has left her daughter traumatised and unable to properly function at school.

Mc Coon resides in an upstairs structure, making it impossible for someone to shoot at her roof from ground level.

She further revealed that after she conducted her own investigation she discovered that the bullet came from above as it went straight through the roof and wooden ceiling at a downward trajectory.

Another resident of the area revealed that his friend who resides at Paradise, St. Clair, which is also a residential area, experienced the same mysterious roof shooting.

The taxi-driver revealed that his friend informed him about a similar situation at her home two months ago.

His friend said that she heard a loud noise “suggestive of an aircraft” mere minutes before the incident occurred.

The two concerned residents would like an investigation to be launched into the strange shooting occurrences.

“Bullets are mysteriously falling from the sky in residential areas.”

She is calling for further investigations in order to capture the culprits before it is too late.
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