Mystery bullet lands near toddler’s bed

Dec 23, 2013 News

A young West Ruimveldt mother remains traumatized after a bullet mysteriously pierced her roof, with the warhead ending up near the bed in which she and her one–year-old daughter sleep.

The resident points to the area on her roof that the bullet penetrated

Adding to the mystery is the fact that she never heard a gunshot and has no idea when the incident happened.
The woman, who declined to be identified, told Kaieteur News that she was lying with her daughter at around 13:00 hrs yesterday when she glanced upwards and saw a hole in the roof just above her bed.
“I said: ‘What that doing there?” On checking further, the woman said that she also noticed a gouge in the concrete wall near the roof.
“I say ‘something come through the roof’, and I lift up the mattress and my heart skip a beat…I see a bullet.”
Placing the object in a piece of tissue, the woman then called a neighbour, who also confirmed that the object was part of a bullet. She found no other damage to the house and concluded that someone fired a shot through her roof into the house.
The bizarre incident has left the woman thinking about her apparent narrow escape.
“I am so traumatized; my baby could have been hurt; I could have been hurt.” The woman said that no one in the area is in the habit of discharging firearms.
She speculated that the incident could have occurred sometime on Friday, and recalled brushing cement dust from her bed around that time, but had not observed anything unusual.