Austin neighborhood worried after homes hit by gunfire

AUSTIN (KXAN) — Residents of a southeast Austin neighborhood say that bullets struck two houses on Bankhead Drive Saturday night time.

Laura Gomez, who’s presently pregnant, says {that a} bullet got here by way of her window and struck her mattress.

“I walked in and noticed a gap in my curtain. I noticed the stuff on the ground, the glass, my shattered window and noticed the place it hit my mattress, proper by the place my stomach space would have been if I used to be sleeping,” Gomez stated. “I couldn’t even sleep there final night time, I needed to sleep within the different room.”

Gomez deliberate to place a bassinet in that room, however now could be nervous.

“It’s not one thing that we expect anybody’s completed on objective, however we do need to make folks conscious that in the event that they’re going to be out capturing their weapons, having enjoyable, that they must be secure about it and know what they’re doing as a result of these bullets do have to return again down and land someplace,” Gomez stated.

One other resident’s storage door was struck.

Gomez says that APD officers responded, and people officers instructed her that it is perhaps outdoors of their jurisdiction as a result of the place the gunfire could have originated.

KXAN reached out to the Austin Police Division and Travis County Sheriff’s Workplace for remark.