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Date Posted: 14:40:23 08/26/03 Tue
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Dave
's message, "Bloom Shooting" on 10:43:15 08/24/03 Sun
>A friend who owns and operates a local store on Iron
>Street told me that a house across the street - 242
>Iron Street - was shot up a few days ago. Apparently
>there was an argument and one of the parties returned.
> The house was occupied by girls attending Bloom. No
>one was hurt, but the cops did impound a girl's car as
>evidence; pissing her off.
>
>
>What a great way to ring in the fall semester!
>-619
Tuesday, August 26, 2003
NEW FOR 2003
New For 2003
Drive-by hits Bloom
By LAURI SHEIBLEY
Press Enterprise Writer
BLOOMSBURG — Shots were fired into a house and two cars along Iron Street early Sunday morning, in what residents are calling a drive-by shooting.
No one was injured, but two bullets hit 258 Iron St., home to a group of male Bloomsburg University students. The students suspect that two town residents are to blame for the shooting. They held a party at the house Saturday night, and two unknown men — one white and one with Asian features — allegedly dropped by and started a fight with the college students.
"They attacked us and we chased them off," student Matt Leisey said. "Ten minutes later we heard the shots."
Police do not have any suspects in the shooting and were still investigating Sunday night.
Awakened
Neighbor Gary Snyder heard the gunshots shortly after 1 a.m. and called 911.
"I woke up and I thought I was having a heart attack," Snyder said. "I was so scared."
Snyder said a round of shots was fired in front of his house at 239 Iron St., then another round was fired farther south on the block. A few 9mm bullet shells were found on his front yard and sidewalk, he said.
The shooting took place right outside Snyder's bedroom window, and he immediately knew it was gunfire.
"A firecracker you'd hear one pop," Snyder said. "But this was bang, bang, bang. A firecracker wouldn't have woken me up like that."
Two cars hit
Two cars parked on the west side of the street were hit with bullets. The side of a silver Jetta owned by BU student Lisa Leister was pierced four times, and her rear tire was flattened. A white Pontiac Grand Am was hit at least once, and one of its windows was shattered.
Leister said she arrived in Bloomsburg Saturday afternoon, and had gone out with friends that evening.
"I was on my way home and I thought I heard gunshots," Leister said. "I came home and they were towing my car."
Most bullets hit the parked cars, but at least two bullets hit the house at 258 Iron. Residents there said one bullet struck the lower level and almost came through the inside wall. Police cut through the wall Sunday morning to remove the bullet, residents say.
Another bullet hit the second floor, but it did not penetrate the house.
Police roped off Iron Street with police tape for about two hours, taking pictures and talking with witnesses. They used flashlights to comb the area for bullet shells and evidence. College students, walking home after Saturday night parties, stopped to gawk at the crime scene.
An hour after the shooting, police also roped off an alley that runs behind the United Church of Christ, but it was unclear why that area was under investigation.
Second shooting
This shooting comes just three days after a drive-by shooting on Vine Street in Berwick. That shooting occurred at 12:32 a.m. Thursday, when at least nine bullets hit a home and a car. Police have a suspect, and are still searching for him.
Snyder and other neighbors doubted the two shootings are connected, but thought it was a strange coincidence.
"I just heard about the one in Berwick, and now I have one on my street," Snyder said.
Neighbor Jerry Ott, a senior at BU, heard the shots and was surprised to find out it was an apparent drive-by shooting. That sort of violence is not typical in a small town, he said.
"It sounded like gunfire, but that's not something you'd expect," he said.
Lauri Sheibley usually covers the Berwick area for the Press Enterprise. She can be reached at 752-3646 or e-mailed at lauri.s@pe-online.com.
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