Drive-by bullet hits room where child was sleeping in Key Peninsula, deputies say
A bullet from a drive-by shooting narrowly missed a sleeping child early Monday in the Key Peninsula area, the Sheriff’s Department reported.
“Our Peninsula deputies need your help to ID the suspects responsible,” the agency posted on social media Wednesday.
The shooting happened about 1:45 a.m. in the Lake of the Woods neighborhood.
According to the Sheriff’s Department:
The suspect got out of the passenger side of a small four-door car, ran up to the house on 142nd Avenue Northwest, then fired.
“The round struck the window of a bedroom where a young child was sleeping and narrowly missed hitting her,” the agency’s Facebook post said.
Then the shooter ran back to the vehicle and fled south.
“He appears to be a white male with a stocky build and shoulder length hair, wearing a baggy t-shirt and basketball shorts,” the Sheriff’s Department wrote. “There is no known motive for the shooting or reason why the victims’ residence was targeted by the suspects.”
