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Apartments struck by bullets near where 11-year-old pulled bullet from bedroom wall

Posted at 12:12 AM, Jul 13, 2015
and last updated 2015-07-13 00:12:57-04

RICHMOND, Va. -- Police are investigating reports of a shooting in South Richmond Sunday evening where eyewitnesses said bullets struck apartment homes shortly after 7:30 p.m.

This happened in the Woodland Crossings apartment complex off Angus and Walmsley Boulevard.

Police said an unoccupied car was also riddled with bullets.

WTVR CBS 6 News is told this is the same area where a bullet went through a woman's home last Thursday. In that case, a mother said the bullet traveled through an outside apartment wall and inside her 11-year-old son’s bedroom.

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Richmond mom says 11-year-old boy find bullet lodged in bedroom wall.

"He was scooting back on his bed,” said that mom, who asked WTVR CBS 6 to hide her identity, fearing for her family’s safety.

"He felt something under his hand and asked, 'What's this, Momma?' And it was a bullet," she said. "I realized there's a hole in the wall. Someone shot outside and it came through the wall and landed on the bed," she said.

Police confirmed there was a call for service at the Woodland Crossings apartment complex off Walmsley Thursday morning.

That distraught mother said she handed the bullet over to a Richmond police officer.

Neighbors reported they hear random gunfire quite often at the apartment complex, some pointing out this was not the first time that apartment building has been hit by stray bullets.

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