OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) – Late final week, quite a few northwest Oklahoma Metropolis residents reported being exterior their neighborhoods within the night, when a automotive pulled up and shot them a number of instances with a pellet gun.
The studies all occurred within the space west of Council Rd. between Britton and Wilshire.
Police say they’ve three suspects in custody after they acquired a number of calls final week of drive-by pellet gun shootings.
“I hear shootings everywhere in the metropolis, however on this space, it is simply not one thing I’m aware of,” mentioned Linda Dech.
Surveillance video reveals a person taking a night stroll within the Meadows neighborhood round 8:30 p.m. final Thursday when a black sedan pulls up. He appears to wave “hello” and cease strolling. That’s when witnesses say he was shot with a pellet gun from the automotive.
This was one in all a number of reported assaults within the space as residents make publish after publish of their neighborhood app.
One publish saying, “They hit my face that left a number of welts that harm like one thing terrible.”
One other publish claiming an assault occurred that night time on the nook gasoline station.
“There was a few girls standing on the nook and so they had been speaking,” mentioned Lynn Minton.
The Rambling Acres resident says he didn’t know what he was seeing till he learn a publish saying these two ladies had simply completed a night stroll when…
“A black automotive pulled up, mentioned one thing… they pulled out pellet weapons and began capturing us. That’s the saddest sickest factor I’ve ever encountered. She was hit in her legs, arm and abdomen, I used to be hit in my face…”
“It is simply disturbing. This has all the time been a quiet neighborhood, we’ve been right here because the 70s. We hate to see the neighborhood begin to decline,” mentioned Minton.
Nonetheless one other publish claiming, “I used to be fired upon by a full auto weapon… and hit within the face slightly below my eye and physique whereas mowing my garden from a black 4 door Honda…“
Late on Thursday after quite a few calls with the identical story of pellet weapons and that black automotive, police arrested three 17-year-old males in that space on expenses of assault with a lethal weapon.
“That simply actually, actually shocks me that one thing like that might occur. I’ve all the time felt prefer it was a comparatively protected neighborhood,” mentioned Dech.
Police say this isn’t the primary time they’ve had a run-in with the arrested teenagers.
