HAMLET — Police are looking for the individual or individuals responsible for shooting into two homes on the same street.
Two residents of Whitlock Street on Tuesday reported property damage to their homes from gunfire, according to incident reports from the Hamlet Police Department.
One home suffered an estimated $1,100 in damage from bullets hitting the vinyl siding and two cabinets. The other has an estimated $150 in damage due to bullet holes in a window and door.
The victim of the second home told police she was sleeping when she heard six or seven gunshots outside around 3:25 a.m. She said stayed in bed with her daughter the rest of the night because they were scared.
When she woke up, the victim found a bullet hole in the back of the house and saw it had entered the back window and gone through the front door.
Officers found the bullet between the front door and screen door and canvassed the backyard for shell casings, but none were found.
The victim from the first home called police around 3:30 a.m. and reported the shooter(s) left the scene in a vehicle heading toward Taylor Place near the cemetery.
She told the responding officer that she was walking in her hallway when she heard something fall inside her kitchen, where she found a piece of a bullet on the floor.
The officer discovered the bullet had come through the wall and her kitchen cabinets.
Investigators encourage anyone with information about these incidents to call the Hamlet Police Department at 910-582-2551 or Richmond County Crime Stoppers at 910-997-5454.
