Stray Bullets
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Curtrina Black is looking for answers after stray bullets struck her residence Wednesday while she and her three children were home.

Black said she was inside her home at 65th Street SW when she heard popping sounds from outside.

Black said, “I heard a pow, pow, pow, and I thought it was someone banging on something.”

Black heard a few more pops, and then her son came running back in the house and said he heard something fly by his head.

Black said, she discovered a hole from a bullet that entered through an outside wall, went through an inside wall and got lodged in a kitchen wall.

The Lee County Sheriff’s Office responded to her home and found a slug from a 50-caliber gun lodged in the kitchen wall.

“I’m pretty much freaked out about it,” Black said. “That’s a big bullet.”

Black doesn’t believe anyone was targeting her house, but she said it’s still scary to think someone was shooting off a gun nearby, especially so close to a residential area where families live.

The sheriff’s office interviewed several neighbors who heard the shots, but no one knew where they came from.