Bullet fired into home

An Ammon couple discovered a bullet had tore through the wall of their home, Saturday.

Homeowner Deborah Evans said, “I noticed sheet rock all over the night stand and the furniture, and as I walked over to look what had happened, I saw the hole in the wall, and I knew right away what it was.”

When the Evans heard a “pop” Saturday morning, they thought nothing of it. It wasn’t until Debbie Evans went to make the bed that she noticed the damage.

“Sure enough it had embedded itself in the bookshelf,” said Rick Evans. “So pretty flat shot through the bedroom.”

The bullet was removed from the Evans’ book shelf by the Sheriff’s Office.

“Then, of course, we had to play CSI on the bullet,” said Rick Evans.

The slug was a .22 caliber bullet. Which means the shooter was within approximately 50 yards from the Evans’ home.

“And I realized every morning I get up, I’m really staring at the bullet hole right between the eyes and it was kind of unnerving. If it had been shot just a couple hours (earlier) it would have hit me straight in the face,” Rick Evans said.

This close call opens up the conversation about gun safety.

“You know, they didn’t understand what was behind their target which is one of the first rules of gun safety,” Rick Evans said. “Know where the bullet can go.”

Steve Zimmermann, of Guns and Gear, said, “They forget the fundamentals of the safety they’ve been taught or should have been taught. So first of all they always need to treat that gun like it’s loaded. Never point the gun at something you don’t want to shoot at, especially when you don’t know what’s behind where you’re shooting.”

Firing a gun in a residential area is a felony. Some of the biggest accidents that come from guns is inexperienced shooters handling the weapon.

“No one is going to play with power tools that you don’t know how to operate. People cut their fingers off. Same thing with a gun… It’s like a tool. You have to understand it,” Rick Evans said.

“You got to be serious. Guns are not toys. Be serious with it because it can end a life,” Zimmerman said.