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You hear gun shots last night?
07/17/2015 10:48 AM by John M
A reader asks:
Around East Grace and possibly 26th or 25th? About 1:40 a.m. on Friday July 17? Anyone else hear?
I definitely heard the blasts, so did a neighbor. We’re in the 2500 blocks of Grace and Broad. She just suggested it could have been a potato gun, and from the deep boom that could have been it. Someone in a car, because the direction changed.
#6 it was definitely three. The way sound travels, I couldn’t swear it was 27th but at least one came from that direction.
I heard it and called it in last night at 1:35am. I thought the shots were coming from around 24th and Marshall, in that parking lot behind the animal hospital.
From the 28th & Broad area, I’m fairly sure the last 2 booms were fireworks. I couldn’t see the display but they made the same, slight ‘after sound’ that fireworks make as they descend/fade.
Just got this in over email:
Shots fired 9:25pm Saturday night
Around 2500 block E. Franklin St. Handgun. 7 methodical shots. Bigger than a 22 – maybe a 38.
Thanks for posting, John. We called police and they’re making the rounds.
And here I heard the shots but thought those were fireworks, sorry I did not call police. Actually looked at my watch and was 9:25 p.m.
Three shots distinctly heard Friday night after 1:00 AM. Saw the muzzle flash for the third one, so must’ve been fairly close to Libby and 30th. My guess was shots fired in vicinity of Sugar Bottom.
@15 thanks, I just spoke to someone on Libby Terrace about this, they heard the shots too. Those three shots on Friday night were really loud.