The strange tale of mysterious enemies and a bullet-riddled garage

By Doug Page | Tuesday, February 16, 2010, 02:55 PM

A couple came home to find a bullet hole in their bedroom window. They call Englewood police, who found more than a bullet hole.

The round traveled through the bedroom, passed through the bedroom wall into the bathroom, through a glass shower door and the fiberglass shower unit, through another wall and into a utility room, where the spent round was found on the floor.

By lining up all the holes, officers were able to backtrack the bullet’s trajectory to the wall of the garage next door. Right where they expected, officers found a bullet hole in the exterior brick of the garage. From the evidence, it appeared the bullet had been fired from the inside of the garage.

No one was home when police knocked on the door of the neighboring residence.

Coming back the next day, a 35-year-old gentleman was home. He said he did not own a gun and knew nothing about the bullet hole in his garage. The officer noted in his report that he had to conduct his interview through the partially open front door. The officer noted pieces of Styrofoam lying outside the garage door. The Styrofoam had red circles in the shape of a target and what appeared to be bullet holes.

Suspicious, perhaps.

Officers returned later that day and talked again with the gentleman. His mother was also there. “They suddenly fell into disbelief that someone shot a gun off in their garage,” one officer wrote. He added the conversation was short-lived because “they were not being cooperative and would only talk to us through a window.”

But police were far from finished. Three days later, they returned to the house with a search warrant. In the garage, they found what appeared to be bullet-riddled trash can, walls, Styrofoam, and 2-by-4’s. They collected bullets and shell casings — including .45- and .380-caliber — and shotgun pellets and wadding. A holster was also recovered.

The mother, the homeowner, told police it must have been “my son’s enemies”. The gentleman was taken to the police station. The the gentleman claimed his enemies had shot up the garage and planted evidence in the house. The gentleman then said he had no more to say.

He was taken to the county lockup where he was cited for discharging a firearm inside the city limits, a misdemeanor.

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