Police Blotter: Woman Says Shot Fired Into Her Car After Large Fight On Forestwood Lane

Monday, February 06, 2012

A woman told police a shot was fired into her car after a large fight broke out in the street on Forestwood Lane.

She said she saw a black male with dreads and gold teeth and with a medium build coming around the side of a residence carrying a gun. She said the man she knows only as "Blue" handed the weapon to a 17-year-old.

The woman said her group jumped into a car and tried to flee. But they heard a shot fired and heard the back windshield shatter.

She later found the bullet in the driver's side visor.

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John Munoz said he was walking along the 3900 block of Dodds Avenue when a white male approached him and began calling him names.

He said they began fighting and the man pulled a knife and stabbed him several times in the inner thigh.

The man drove off in a dark-colored Honda.

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A clerk at the Kangaroo on Highway 58 said a medium-built black male wearing a gray jacket and jeans entered the store.

He suddenly grabbed a package of condoms and ran out of the store.

The man was last seen running east on Oakwood Drive.  


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