A Vimy-area family is in shock after waking up last Sunday morning to find their house had been hit by two bullets while they slept.
Tammi, who asked that her full name not be used out of concern for the family’s safety, said the entire experience in the early morning hours of Feb. 17 has left her and her husband rattled because they have no idea why anyone would shoot at their house.
“I don’t know why it would be us,” she said, adding her family is a quiet one that mostly keeps to itself. “I’m just assuming it’s a random kind of a move.”
Everything was fine that night when the family went to bed at around 2 a.m., but that changed later on.
“Some time during the night when we were still in a very deep sleep, I heard a crash of glass,” Tammi said. “I thought, ‘What did the cats do now?’ because they knock stuff onto our tile floor all the time.”
However, since her son had a friend over, she decided to wait until morning to deal with the broken glass because she didn’t want to wake them up while cleaning the mess.
It wasn’t until the morning when she discovered what had actually happened.
“I was looking around at light shades,” Tammi said. “I just couldn’t imagine what did it, and then my husband noticed the hole in the glass in our window.”
Upon looking through the rest of the house, she said they found another hole in their bedroom wall “about four feet above where my husband was sleeping.”
The bullet that made that hole had travelled through the bedroom and cracked their TV, but caused no other damage.
Both bullet holes were on the side of the house that faces Township Road 590, leading RCMP Const. Richard Buisseret to believe the shooting was not targeted at Tammi and her family.
Buisseret added that one of the investigators on scene was a “firearms guru” and determined the bullets were both .223 calibre.
The investigator also said the bullets were likely fired from a great distance because there were no shell casings found near the scene and the damage the bullets caused was relatively minor.
Regardless of the reason for the shots, Tammi said all that really matters is that someone was aiming a gun in her house’s direction.
“We have little lights on our deck posts,” she said. “Maybe they were trying to knock out those lights. I really don’t know.”
She’s also happy the only damage was to her property.
“I’m just very happy that none of us were hurt, but very angry that somebody could be so stupid,” she added.
RCMP are investigating the shooting, but do not currently have any leads.
Buisseret said if anyone heard something to the east of Vimy during the early morning hours of Feb. 17, or knows of people who were out with firearms that morning, to contact police.
