CHICAGO — A bullet ripped through a South Loop woman's home Friday, going through her bed in the same spot where she sleeps.
Jennifer, who asked that her full name not be used out of safety concerns, was away when the gunfire came through a neighbor's condo and went through her wall, headboard and covers.
It wasn't until Jennifer returned home to the first block of East Ninth Street and went to her bedroom that she found the bullet in her sheets, she said.
Jennifer was shocked, fearful and "a little" hysterical, she said. She called 911, and officers investigated, she said, going to the condo of the neighbor who shares the wall the bullet came through.
The bullet hole in Jennifer's headboard.
An officer and building maintenance man told Jennifer the neighbor had tried to "haphazardly" cover the bullet hole in his wall with a picture frame, she said. She's never spoken to the man, Jennifer said, and she doesn't think her building has rules against tenants having guns.
The officers filed a report, saying the case was aggravated assault, Jennifer said, but later that night they returned and said the charge had been downgraded to criminal damage to property.
That's the last Jennifer has seen of any investigators, she said. She's called the police but said they told her they would not be sending out a detective to do any more work.
The circumstances of the gunfire were unknown, police told DNAinfo, but the case has not been closed.
“I still have to live next door to him and … I don’t feel safe in my own apartment,” Jennifer said. “That’s exactly where I sleep. It came through exactly head-level through my pillows. That’s exactly where I sleep.”
Jennifer has contacted a lawyer and has reached out to her building's property manager and board of directors. She's hoping she can get the board to investigate the incident and how tenants are screened.
