Park Duvalle house shooting forces tenants to move out

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WAVE) - Tenants of a Park Duvalle house are moving out after their home was shot at early Saturday morning, leaving bullet holes throughout the residence.

The back of the house on Beech Street near Wilson Avenue was targeted in the shooting. Bullet holes riddle the siding and windows of the home where the tenants had lived for seven months.

Woman narrowly escapes injury

Mandi was sitting on her bed playing Fortnite when bullets came through her room. A bullet punched through the drywall near where she was sitting.

“You kind of just go into survival mode, I guess, I just dove I don’t know,” Mandi said.

She said she believes her dog may have helped protect her during the shooting.

“She got this dog for me five months before she passed, we’ve been through a lot of stuff, I think I survived because that dog was next to me covering both of us,” Mandi said.

Multiple rooms hit by gunfire

Holes riddle the window, frame and walls in Mandi’s room. The shooting also damaged an upstairs room where an 8-year-old boy normally sleeps. Bullet holes punched through the wall, stopping in the hallway drywall.

“This is a child’s room, so horrible,” Mandi said.

Toys lie where the boy’s bed was located.

Previous shooting reported

Mandi said her neighbor told her the house had been shot at last July, a month before she moved in. She thinks the prior tenants may have been the targets. Police have no prior report at this address.

“We didn’t know whether to believe it or not because our landlords did not disclose it, but now we know that, I kind of believe that’s a fact,” Mandi said.

Mandi described herself and her roommates as quiet tenants.

“It’s just crazy, we don’t have anyone over, like we’re very boring women honestly, we serve all day when we come home we don’t want to talk to people, we want to be left alone,” she said.

The tenants are packing up and plan to be out before rent is due in two weeks. Mandi said she doesn’t know if bullet damage will cost her security deposit.

Detectives have the case. No arrests have been made. Maintenance was scheduled to replace the broken windows.