Sleeping teenager grazed by bullet after several homes hit by gunfire

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Police are trying to figure out who opened fire early Monday morning in a northwest Charlotte neighborhood, hitting several houses and injuring a sleeping teenager.

Police were called around 4 a.m. to the Windy Ridge subdivision, on High Winds Lane off Rozelles Ferry Road.

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Detectives said four homes were hit by gunfire, and that one bullet grazed a 15-year-old girl’s leg while she slept inside her house on Palm Breeze Lane.

She was taken to the hospital but will be OK, police said.

Neighbor Samuel Silas told Eyewitness News reporter Anthony Kustura that he immediately dropped to the ground to find a place to hide.

"I heard a lot of shots. I heard a lot of bullets," Silas said. " We noticed that there were white chips everywhere. All over the room and it was from the windowsill being shattered."

The bullet hit the windowsill and landed in the dresser next to him.

“It was too close, it was too close for me,” Silas said.

The house next door was hit by three bullets.

We counted two in the front door and one through the window. The rear tire of a car was also shot out.

“There are so many bullets. There’s like seven or eight bullet holes between these two houses,” Silas said.

One of those bullets hit his neighbor's daughter as she was sleeping.

“Thank God her daughter is fine. She got grazed on the leg, but she’s fine,” Silas said.

Channel 9 could see investigators roping off the area with crime scene tape and placing dozens of evidence markers near shell casings on the ground around the homes.

Officers were interviewing witnesses but do not have any details about whoever pulled the trigger.

We learned a man was shot to death last year during a party at the same house where the teen was shot Monday morning.

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Police never caught the suspect in that case.

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