ROCK HILL, S.C. —
Creola Massey was just preparing a bath for her 4-year-old daughter and 7-year-old niece when the shooting started.
"I ran into the room, got my girls on the ground and covered them. I'm shaking, they’re asking what's wrong," Massey said.
Bullets shattered the front window of her home on Crawford Road in Rock Hill. Others struck the front door, destroying the storm door and hurling glass across the front steps. One bullet ripped through the house and lodged in the kitchen wall.
Massey was afraid to get up off the floor long after the gunfire stopped.
"I started crawling on the floor. I looked up above my couch and I saw holes all in my windows. That's when my heart dropped," she said.
Rock Hill police picked up 10 9 millimeter shell casings from her front yard.
Next door, a bullet ripped through a garden hose and police pulled the slug from a wooden deck. A woman named Bri, who didn't want to give her last name, said she was watching TV when she heard the shots right outside.
"I didn't even get up to check. I was worried about my own life," she said.
Massey had only moved into the house three weeks ago.
"My first house. My first time out on my own," she said.
She had just paid her first month's rent. Now, she's looking for a new place to live -- a safe place.
"That was the scariest thing. The worst day of my life," she said.
One neighbor reported seeing a small green sedan drive away from the house, down Crawford Road.
Rock Hill police aren't discussing a motive or who might have been the intended target. Detectives aren't saying if the shooting could somehow be connected to a homicide nearby on Taylor Street last weekend.
Massey said she has no doubt the shooter was looking for somebody else.
"They couldn't have been targeting me. It can't be. It has to be someone that lived there before," she said.
When Massey called 911, she asked for more than one officer to come. When she finally opened her battered front door, she told Channel 9 she instantly felt safe because there were Rock Hill police officers lined up on the street and in her yard.
If you have any information about the shooting incident Thursday night on Crawford Road, call York CountyCrime Stoppers at 877-409-4321.
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