Home of Indy grandmother sprayed with nearly a dozen bullets

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — An Indianapolis grandmother and her family are left wondering why nearly a dozen bullets shot through their home in the early morning hours.     

It’s yet another example of what IMPD is calling a disturbing trend: homes hit by gunfire.

Some of these bullets narrowly missed people. Others ripped through parts of the home where people sit every single day.     

It serves as a reminder of just what can be at stake when someone decides to pull the trigger. After a bullet leaves the barrel, the bullets don’t know who their victim really is.    

“It can have an unexpected target,” said Capt. Michael Elder of IMPD. “Walls don’t always stop them.”  

In the middle of the night, early Wednesday, Janice Mallory nearly learned the hard way.    

“I don’t think my brain has comprehended what has just happened to me,” Mallory said.    

A bullet, let alone ten, does not have any bias.     

“It probably came here and ricocheted,” Mallory said looking at some of the damage.    

Others ripped through multiple walls of her home in the 10800 block of Kilworth Court.   

“It came in here, went through up here and out in my garage,” Mallory said, pointing at a bullet that went through multiple rooms.    

Whoever it was shot only seeing the outside of the home on the south side of Indianapolis, not seeing a bullet that whizzed by where Mallory’s granddaughter usually eats dinner.     

“I just think about what if she had been here,” Mallory said.    

Another bullet obliterated part of a dining room chair.    

“I have another son, when he comes over, he sits in the chair,” she said.    

A third lodged in a window pane about ten feet from where Mallory’s nephew lay sleeping. Fortunately, no one was hurt in this shooting.     

“This would have been a tragedy — for what?” Mallory asked.     

She said police told her the shooting looks intentional. The retiree said she lives a quiet life with two grandsons; a teacher and an Amazon employee.     

“I have no guns in my house because I have too many grandbabies,” Mallory explained.

IMPD has been alarmed by the number of homes hit, some intentionally, some unintentionally, by gunfire.     

Back in March, one-year-old Malaysia Robson died after 44 bullets hit her home.     

Mallory prays this is the end of it.     

“Why? Why would you go shoot up somebody’s house that you don’t know who’s in there sleeping?”     

Mallory has been through a lot in her home. A tornado blasted through her garage in 2008. She said she can accept when Mother Nature brings her reign.     

But this shooting was completely avoidable because she said she has absolutely no idea why her home was hit.