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Three West Knox County houses riddled with bullets

Melanie Russell # State
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WEST KNOX COUNTY, Tenn. (WATE) - Three separate houses, three separate events - one common thread: Bullets and Friday nights. Not the ideal combination.

The Knox County Sheriff's Office is actively investigating an issue that was described as vandalism at three residences within the same neighborhood in West Knox County after residents found bullets in their homes: Two of the homes reported the bullets April 5, the third on April 12.

So far, nobody knows where the bullets came from.

KCSO incident reports indicate that on Friday, April 5, one of the residents on Rhyne Cove Lane called 911 after hearing a noise in her bedroom around 1 a.m., thought she was dreaming, then later awoke finding a bullet hole in her bedroom window. After checking her bedroom, she told KCSO she found a bullet on her bed. Her husband's company work truck also had the passenger window shot out, with a bullet lying on the driver's side floor board.

The other Friday, April 5 report, this time on Morning Dew Lane, indicated the caller told KCSO a bullet had damaged his upstairs bathroom window and the round was recovered in the gutter beneath the window. Another person at the home said they, too, thought they'd heard a loud noise from outside around 1 a.m.

On Friday, April 12, again on Morning Dew Lane, a different caller told KCSO that his father-in-law found a bullet inside the kitchen table and noticed a bullet hole in the kitchen window. The bullet was pulled from the kitchen table and laid atop it. There was also damage to two porch screens outside of the house.

No injuries were reported.

None of the residents seem to have any connection to one another, apart from living near each other, and none of them could think of why anyone would shoot at their homes.

KCSO had forensic techs investigate and analyze the scenes. The investigation is ongoing.