Family narrowly escapes gunfire into their Jackson home
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JACKSON, Tenn. — A Jackson couple and their two young children say they narrowly escaped a spray of bullets when gunmen opened fire on their home Friday morning. They say their home was riddled with shots from at least two different weapons, with one bullet coming within inches of their children’s heads. “If my kids would have been hurt, who was going to bury them?” Courtney Smith said. The shooting has left the family of four with a lot of questions after the house they have lived in for just more than a year was sprayed with bullets and shotgun pellets. “They shot right here beside my bedroom window,” Jeffrey Pirtele said. “We was in the bed. They was shooting right there where my bed was.” They counted eight shots into the front of the home. Pirtele says he thinks they came from a shotgun and pistol, two guns that could have taken the lives of four people. “This could have been very fatal,” Smith said. “My children could have been shot. My children could have been hurt.” Smith says one of the bullets came within inches of her children’s heads. “It’s a horrible, freaky, scary feeling — the possible feeling that could possibly give you nightmares at night,” Smith said. The family says they believe the ordeal may have been a mistake by someone who wanted to target somebody else. “It’s really mind boggling when I have got to sit up and think about who would do this or whatever,” Pirtele said. “I hope this is a mistake and it’s over with, but you know, justice will be served by me or the police.” If you have any information about this incident, you are asked to call Crime Stoppers at 731-424-TIPS (8477).
