INDIANAPOLIS — Neighbors on the west side of Indianapolis are asking for the public's help finding the people responsible for shooting up their homes and cars with a paintball gun.
"There's a lot of other people who have witnessed it, but no one has been able to catch them," Jessica Jenkins said.
According to Jenkins, someone is doing drive-by shootings in the Drexel Gardens neighborhood, near Minnesota Street and Lynhurst Drive.
Surveillance photos show her 16-year-old son in the front yard just before 4:20 p.m. Monday, Sept. 4. You see a gray-colored SUV approach and the passenger holding what appears to be a paintball gun. That passenger hit Jenkins' house with yellow paint and then hit her son in the face.
"I'm looking at his face and he's got a red welt on his face. If it actually hit him in the eye, they could've taken his eye out," Jenkins said.
She tried to get the license plate, but the video was too blurry.
"That right there is crossing the line. If you're out just being a hooligan, that's one thing, but if you start aiming at children and stuff, somebody's going to take action," Dennis Waites said.
Waites was watching football with friends when it happened to his home.
"We heard a loud 'bang' on the screen door. It hit right here. Splattered real good. I mean, you can still see the splatter effect. Ugh," Waites said.
Waites' neighbors captured surveillance video of the same gray SUV at 3:15 p.m. He believes the vandals damaged his son's car, too, after a paintball cracked the rear passenger window.
"I'll pay for this out of pocket, and hopefully, those guys will get caught and none of this will happen again," Waites said.
Neighbors are banding together in hopes of someone noticing the vehicle and coming forward with information.
"This is my home, this neighborhood, and to see someone run through here and start disrespecting anything and anybody is just really ... it's annoying," Waites said.
Jenkins is thankful her son is OK but fears it could happen again.
"People don't have respect for anybody. They could've killed somebody," Jenkins said.
Neighbors said the vehicle's rear passenger-side door is dented.
Anyone with information is encouraged to call police.