By LESLIE EIKLEBERRY
Salina Post
At least one of the shots fired Tuesday night near an east Salina apartment complex is believed to have damaged a residence slightly less than a mile away.
Salina Police Captain Paul Forrester said this morning that officers were sent to the Heather Ridge Apartments, 2130 E. Crawford Street, for the report of shots fired.
Witnesses reported seeing a man fire four rounds, possibly from a handgun. Additionally, witnesses told police that they saw two men. One ran north and the other south after the shots were fired.
Police were able to locate two .40 caliber shell casings in the area, Forrester said.
At about the same time as the reported shots fired incident, an officer was dispatched to the 700 block of Moundview Avenue for the report of a window being shot, Forrester said. A 76-year-old Salina man told police that he and his wife were in their bedroom when they heard a noise. They found a hole in a window and window blinds on the back side of the house, and a projectile under the dining room table.
Forrester said that based on the trajectory that the projectile hit the window, it is believed that one of the bullets fired near the Heather Ridge Apartments traveled approximately 1,400 meters (slightly less than a mile) down the hill, striking the window on the house in the 700 block of Moundview Avenue. The rear of the house faces east.
Damage to the house on Moundview Avenue was estimated at $1,000, Forrester said.