A teenage girl suffered cuts to her face but escaped serious injury when police said someone firing gunshots sent a bullet through the windshield of the girl's vehicle on Erie's east side late Monday night.
The shooting was reported on Monday at about 11 p.m. in the area of East 25th and French streets. Erie police were alerted to it by the city's ShotSpotter gunshot detection system, which detected 17 gunshots, and by several calls made to 911, Erie police Deputy Chief Rick Lorah said Tuesday morning.
Responding officers initially found no victims or shell casings at the scene, but soon located a white Buick parked in the 100 block off East 25th Street that had a bullet hole in the front windshield, Lorah said. Officers also located a 17-year-old girl who had some lacerations to her face, he said.
The girl told police she was driving west on East 25th Street when she heard gunshots, her windshield shattered and she felt her face get hot, Lorah said. She had no other information on who might have shot at her, he said.
The girl declined treatment at a hospital and was turned over to a parent, Lorah said. Erie police detectives are investigating the incident.
The shooting was the third incident involving reports of multiple gunshots fired at a location in Erie in four days.
Erie police detectives are continuing to investigate a series of reported shootings late Friday night in the 500 block of East 10th Street, the 800 block of Wallace Street and the 400 block of East Eighth Street. Police believe the shootings are related because of the close proximity of the incidents. No one was reported injured in the shootings.
Also still under investigation Tuesday was a reported shooting early Sunday morning in the 1400 block of Lynn Street. Lorah said Monday that responding officers found an "alarming amount" of shell casings of three different calibers at the scene and located four vehicles and a house that were damaged by gunfire. No one was reported injured in that shooting.
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