Bz. City man car riddled with bullets

Not every incident involving guns this weekend ended in bloodshed, but that doesn’t mean the victims were any less traumatised. In the wee hours of Saturday, gunshots rained down on a parked car, leaving a King’s Park family with more questions than answers as to the motive. Ann-Marie Williams reports.

Ann-Marie Williams, Reporting

Atilio Ulloa may not have lost a loved one at the hands of a trigger-happy assailant, but he’s still in shock. In the early morning hours of Saturday he awoke to the sound of bullets penetrating his white 1991 Mercury Cougar sports car, which was parked in front of his Simon Lamb Street home.

Atilio Ulloa

“About 2:00 in the morning I heard some shots and I jumped up immediately. I was going to come and check, but I didn’t feel that it was my car they were messing around with, so I lay back down. Then until about ten minutes later after it happened, my little sister peeped through the window and said my glass looks like it’s wet. It didn’t rain, so I came out and I looked at it and saw that there were some holes. Before coming down, I called the police.”

Ulloa says when the police arrived they determined the shilling-sized holes came from a nine millimetre gun.

Atilio Ulloa

“The police came, three of them, they came out, looked at the car, picked up a couple shells and I’m not sure if they even asked me my name or anything because they looked like they were more frightened than me. They got back in the car and told us that they would send the C.I.B. A neighbour asked them, “Aren’t you going to leave someone here should in case someone comes back?” They said, “No, we’ll send the C.I.B.” Up to this hour, the C.I.B. has not arrived.”

Ann-Marie Williams

“Do you have any idea more or less who would have done this, or did you hear any commotion on the street or saw anything?”

Atilio Ulloa

“No, I have no idea who could have done it and the only commotion we heard were the shots. According to some neighbours, it was one person, a red skinned person that just came and shot up the car and ran back up the street. He walked here, shot up the car and went back up the street where a car was waiting for him, a car or some people say it was two cars.”

Ulloa hopes that Saturday’s shoot up of his car was just a random act of violence, and one that will not re-occur. Ann-Marie Williams for News 5.

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