Takisha Fullman and her four young kids were inside a home on the 5300 block of Garfield Avenue when they had to take cover early Sunday.
“I froze,” said Fullman, who moved to Kansas City just weeks ago from Delaware. “My aunt just kept yelling, ‘Drop. Everybody drop. Hit the floor, hit the floor!’ It was scary.”
Fullman said 4-6 bullets hit their home, following a confrontation in front of the house roughly a half-hour earlier with two men and a woman.
“Apparently, she tracked the phone back here,” said Fullman.
Fullman said the woman claimed two men who had stopped at the Garfield Ave. home had stolen a cellphone from a liquor store. Fullman said after telling the group that the men and the phone were no longer there, the woman didn’t believe her and kept circling the block.
“We finally got up. We went in the house. No later than 20-30 minutes after we [had] been in the house we hear gunshots,” said Fullman.
Inside at the time were 7 people, including 4 children ages 3-11, the youngest in the living room facing the street where the shots came from.
“If the bullets would have went anywhere else and went through, he could have been hit,” said Fullman. “It’s too much. Over what? A phone? You’re willing to take a life over a phone? Innocent bystanders at that.”
Police are still investigating the incident.
