Bullets rip through Crisp Springs home

Investigators suspect three teens playing with a gun as the reason bullets were fired into a Crisp Springs house over the weekend.

One of the boys, a juvenile age 17, is charged with reckless endangerment for the incident which happened at 5030 Crisp Springs Road around 10:20 p.m. Sunday, and left the front of his neighbor?s house riddled with bullet holes.

?He?s lucky no one was hurt because if someone had been hurt or even killed he would probably be looking at facing felony charges as an adult,? said sheriff?s chief investigator Herb Rowland. ?Fortunately there was only property damage and no one was injured.?

Rowland said one of the residents was in the kitchen when he heard what he described as popping in front of his house. Upon closer inspection, the man found what appeared to be bullet hole in the front door and even one penetrating inside the house and lodged in the speaker of a TV. Investigators believe there were two or three hits on the house from the .22 caliber firearm.

The 17-year-old, who was out in his yard across the street along with two younger teen-age friends maintained during questioning that they were just outside shooting and meant no harm.

?He said he didn?t mean to shoot the house,? Rowland said.

The teen said when he heard the bullets actually strike something in the darkness, they became scared and ran away. Lawmen have not revealed where the teen got the gun, or if the owner of the gun will face charges.