Salina police are investigating two instances of bullets ending up in places they shouldn't have been.
Sometime between 7 p.m. Saturday and 10:30 a.m. Sunday someone shot a 9mm bullet through the window of a 2008 Hyundai Santa Fe that was parked in the 1800 block of Page Avenue, Salina Police Captain Paul Forrester reported this morning. The 61-year-old owner of the vehicle noticed the damage, estimated at $500, and upon inspection of the vehicle found a bullet sitting on the front passenger seat, he added. The woman reported the case to police on Sunday.
Then on Tuesday a 39-year-old Salina man reported to police that sometime between Friday and Sunday someone fired a 9mm bullet into his residence in the 600 block of Lena Avenue, which is near the location on Page Avenue, Forrester noted.
The man had been out of town for the holiday weekend and returned Sunday evening. Upon his return, he found a 9mm bullet in his hallway, but did not initially observe any damage, Forrester explained. On Tuesday, the man was inspecting his residence after noticing some peeling paint, and it was then that he discovered a hole from the outside into the residence, according to Forrester.
"The bullet traveled through the siding on the house, through the wall, ricocheted off the door frame of a bedroom, and then onto the wall in the hallway where the bullet was located. The bullet appeared to have come from the east," Forrester reported.
He noted that the bullet was the same brand as the one found in the vehicle on Page Avenue.
Damage to the residence was estimated at $2,000, he added.