GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — A Grand Rapids family experienced a terrifying morning when gunfire erupted outside their home near Dickinson Elementary School. No one was injured, but the incident has left them shaken.
On Wednesday, just before 7:15 a.m., Grand Rapids police responded to reports of shots fired on Griggs Street near Madison Avenue SE.
Multiple shots were fired, hitting several homes in the area.
“I hit the floor and crawled into the living room,” a mother who lives on Griggs told FOX 17 hours after the shooting.
The woman asked not to be identified.
“It stopped… and then when I jumped up, my daughter starts to run down the stairs.”
She walked outside to try and figure out what had happened, and if anyone was hurt.
“When I came outside, you could smell it… you could still see, like, little gray clouds,” she recalled.
She guesses it was around 20 shots fired, potentially from multiple shooters.
“It sounded like it was more than one,” she said.
She found a bullet had gone into the upper portion of her front porch.
Several others made their way into the side of her neighbor’s home, police evidence stickers still visible around the bullet holes.
"I'm scared because it was so close. I'm nervous,” she explained. “I’m also scared for the kids being outside on the playground."
Police say, luckily, it all happened long before students showed up for school at Dickinson Elementary.
“I don't know if it's the wrong address they had or something… that's what I'm thinking.”
GRPD is investigating the incident and urges anyone with information about who might be responsible to come forward.
You can contact GRPD at (616) 456-3380 or submit information anonymously through Silent Observer at (616) 774-2345.
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