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March 29, 2007

South Side Shooting

A Pueblo woman was targeted by gunfire Monday when she interrupted an armed prowler outside of her South Side residence. Nobody was hurt.

The 39-year-old woman and her 16-year-old son were at their home in the 1400 block of Spruce Street at about 9:20 p.m., when they heard loud banging outside their back door.

The woman opened the door and saw a male figure running away through her back yard.

The woman shouted at the prowler and asked what he was doing in her yard. He responded with profanity, then pointed a gun at the woman and fired several times, missing her with each shot.

One bullet struck the back wall of the residence. Another entered the house through the dining room window and traveled all the way through the front door.

The woman told police she did not recognize the suspect or his voice. She described him as 6 feet tall with a medium build. He wore black pants and a dark, hooded sweatshirt with the hood pulled over his head.

East Side Shooting

A Pueblo couple and their three children were shot at late Monday by a stranger. Nobody was injured.

The man and his wife were with their children - ages 4, 10 and 12 - in the parking lot of Wal-Mart, 4200 Dillon Drive, at 11:30 p.m., according to a report by Pueblo police officer Kenneth Matic.

As the family walked through the lot to its car, a man drove past them slowly in a black sport-utility vehicle and said to the father, “What's up, dog?”

“What's up?” the dad replied.

The family's vehicle and the SUV traveled near each other from Dillon Drive to East 40th Street, near Colorado 47. There, the driver of the SUV reportedly held a pistol out the window and fired a shot toward the family's vehicle. Occupants of the family's vehicle reported seeing a muzzle flash. The shot missed the car.

The suspect was described as a black man in his early 20s. He wore a white “dew rag” and a black, short-sleeved shirt.

By PATRICK MALONE
THE PUEBLO CHIEFTAIN

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