A family’s quiet Sunday afternoon suddenly turned turned terrifying when a bullet hit their home near Brockport.
We have more on what police are calling a case of reckless endangerment.
“I was in my sister’s bedroom and she was playing X-box and I was just kind of watching and we heard this loud bang and nobody knew what it was. I thought it was my mirror falling,” says Morgan Decker, 14.
“It just sounded like broken glass, like something was shattering,” says resident Traci Decker.
After working a night shift, Traci Decker was startled out of her sleep by a loud sound around 3 p.m. Sunday.
After looking around, she found a bullet had made a hole in the bathroom sink, pushing her make-up bag, and going into the light switch.
Fortunately, it stopped there and no one was hit.
“It was pretty frightening because my family was inside, we were racing down the steps, the shots continued to fire,” says Decker.
While on the phone with 9-1-1, Traci ran down to the basement for safety, along with her husband and two daughters.
Morgan Decker says her room is right on the other side of the light switch where the bullet hit. Luckily, she was in another room at the time and the bullet did not make it through into her room.
“I was just really scared because that’s never happened and I didn’t think that a bullet would enter the house,” says Morgan.
Traci says after looking at the rifle bullet with an officer, she believes it came from past Route 219, more than half a mile from the home on Shawmut Road.
She says she still feels unsafe in her own home, especially with the start of deer season, and while we visited the home on Monday, we could hear firing in the distance.
“It’s reckless for someone to be shooting in the area, especially if they’re target shooting with that type of ammunition,” says Traci.
“People should probably learn how to use guns and realize what they’re shooting at before they shoot,” says Morgan.
Police are investigating. Traci says the costs to fix the wall, siding, sink, and light switch could top $2,000.
