Police investigate three shots fired incidents in a day

Springfield police are investigating three shots fired incidents that were reported over the weekend on the same day.

Officersrespondedaround 9:40 p.m. on Sunday to the area of East Cecil Street and South Limestone Street for shots being heard in the area, according to a Springfield police report.

Whenpolice arrived, they began to check the area and found “several spent shell casings in the street” and “several bullet holes in the north exteriorwall and window” of an address in the 100 block ofEastCecil Street.

“Officers collected 11 spent 9mm casings, 11 spent .40 caliber casings and 5 spent projectiles/fragments,” the report stated.

According to the report, officers found two bullet holes in the north facing windowand 24 bullet holes in the exterior wall.

A short time before that incident, officers were dispatched just before 9 p.m. to the 700 block of East Cecil Street on the report of shots fired into the residence, according to a Springfield police report.

Whenpolice arrived, they spoke with the occupants inside the residence who said they heard at least eight gunshots outside.

“As the shots were being fired, (one woman) stated that she dove onto the upstairs hallway floor just as a spent round struck the northwest upstairs hallway window,” the report stated.

While officerswere checking the outside of the residence, they did not find any spent shell casings, but did find “a fresh bullet hole to the rear of the residence, which caused damage to the siding and thewood underneath” and a spent round in the upstairs windowsill, the report stated.

Officers were also dispatched around 12:30 a.m. to the800block ofMansfield Avenue in reference to an unknown person shooting through the kitchen window of the residence, according toa Springfield police report.

Whenpolice arrived, they spoke with two residents whowere inside the kitchen when the shots were fired.

“(The two residents) stated an unknown object, what they believed was a bullet, came through the kitchen window and a few feet to their left. The bullet went through the screen and through a glass top to a cooking pot,” the report stated.

The two residents told police they didn’t hear a gunshot, but hadmusic on in their house.