ELIZABETH CITY, N.C. (WAVY) — Last weekend was a violent one in Elizabeth City, with six incidents reported from Friday to Sunday.
Now, even after the arrests of four people, several neighborhoods are on edge after a string of calls about shots fired.
It all came to a stop on Forest Skipper Drive, and that’s where 10 On Your Side stopped Wednesday to follow up.
Though no one was injured, a lot of nerves are frazzled.
“It sounded like bullets coming through the trailer,” said Gordon Kroll, who was in the bathroom when it happened.
He walked the path of the bullet from the bathroom to the bedroom door.
“The bullet came through the shower, came through the other side of the shower, through the wall,” Kroll said, “now traveling across the bedroom, goes through the bedroom door, through the other side and then falls to the floor. … I picked it up and gave it to police.”
Next door to Kroll, Beulah Skinner found out her car had bullet holes in it. She got a call from her son.
“He came by and said there was a shooting because it hit the car,” Skinner said, “and something is leaking from under your car.”
Four people were arrested in connection with the shots fired there at the Meadowlands Mobile Home Park.
Good police work led to the arrest, although police would not comment much further than the basic information given at the Monday news conference.
Listening to the feed of the news conference, there were lots of unanswered questions that were not asked by those in attendance, and the news conference ended quickly.
Police arrested Kamiri Leary, Anthony McCoy, Joseph Small and Javon Dashiell, charging them with assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill and shooting into an occupied dwelling.
“Suspects were seen fleeing the area in black Maxima, and at some point, they abandoned the vehicle and fled on foot,” Elizabeth City Police Chief J.P. Webster said Monday.
During a Monday news conference Webster showed the guns confiscated at that incident and some of the five other violent events taking place between Friday and Sunday. It was an impressive haul of weapons, a total of eight.
Said Kroll: “I’m just glad they caught them. I don’t need to be worried about them back in the neighborhood doing it again.”
“It was kind of fearful that something like this could happen,” Skinner said. “because I’ve been out her some over 31 years.”
Kroll summed it up this way.
“It is ridiculous,” Kroll said. “Kids today have no respect for anyone anymore. If they were brought up the way I was, they wouldn’t be doing all of this.”
10 On Your Side has been told that investigators are checking out these other events to see if the four wanted in the Forest Skipper Drive shootings may be connected to others.