Residents of a Raleigh apartment complex are seeing more bullet holes mark their buildings as three shootings have been reported in three weeks. | pixabay
Residents of a Raleigh apartment complex are seeing more bullet holes mark their buildings as three shootings have been reported in three weeks. | pixabay
Three shootings in as many weeks at a Raleigh apartment complex has residents on edge, and it’s not just one bullet per shooting, either.
Jazmin Bullock, who lives in the Walnut Woods apartment complex, showed a WTVD reporter a unit next to hers that was riddled with bullets during a Sunday night shooting. Bullet holes marked the outside of her apartment, too. That none of them wounded or killed a person let everyone breathe a sigh of relief, but it might be a short-lived sigh.
"This is a plea for help before it gets any worse,” she told the news station.
Bullock said she took cover with her four kids, who range in age from 12 years old to 6 months old, in her bathroom Sunday after the mayhem started.
"You could feel the vibrations,” she recounted. “You could feel the vibration of the bullets flying.”
Bullock doesn't know what the violence is all about, but she wants it to end.
“What I know is that this needs to stop before anybody gets hurt out here,” she said, "before a mother mourns a child, or a child mourns their mother or both parents, or both together."
So far, no person has been shot, but residents worry that’s what will happen.
“A bullet has nobody's name, no destination and no place it's going,” Bullock said on the report. “Innocent bystanders were caught in the midst of this.”
Raleigh police have been called and have taken reports, but that hasn’t stopped the shootings.
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