Just before midnight police say someone fired shots into a home on Potomac Avenue in Greenville. Ten minutes later a mother and her two daughters reported hearing five gunshots fired into her home on Pleasant Ridge Avenue. A neighbor also reported gunshots hitting a car, parked in the driveway. The midnight calm of most neighborhoods isn't what happens after residents of Pleasant Valley in Greenville go to sleep at night. They say it's common to hear gun shots.
Edward Webb Junior showed News Channel 7 the bullet hole where the car was hit while he slept inside. Natasha Green and her two daughters were asleep next door when the drive-by shootings happened. Green says, "Before my generation, you used to do it by fighting with fists or with words. A gun takes somebody's life and you can't give it back to 'em." Her daughter Markita was lying on a mattress on the floor, when a bullet went through the front wall into her bedroom. Her sister Miahia says, "My sister says, mama my room has been shot. I thought she had been shot. I ran downstairs and she said mamma, my room has been shot at." Markita showed News Channel 7 the bullet hole. She says, “I was sleeping, and then the next thing I know, I heard a car, and then I heard, like, five gunshots, and then I felt something just falling on my face.
This family says catching whoever did it, won't make a difference in their lives. They say it’s a cycle that needs to be broken. Ms. Green says, "It’s hard. These children oughta know, this is not a way to live." Even though in this neighborhood, they say it is a way of life.
No one was hurt, and Greenville Police recovered bullets at the scene, but they say they don't have a suspect or a motive yet. Until the investigation is complete, they say they won't know if anyone was a target, or if they were just random drive-by shootings.
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