Shooters target two Roswell homes

ROSWELL, N.M. (KBIM-KRQE) - Roswell police are looking for whoever blasted one home with a shotgun in the middle of the night and fired pistol shots at a second home later in the day.

The first shootings happened at 2:30 a.m. Tuesday when someone fired two rounds from a 12-gauge shotgun into a home on North Kansas Avenue.

The owner, who didn’t want to be identified because he fears for his safety, and his girlfriend and her young daughter were all inside. No one was struck by the pellets, but they were left shaken.

“The cost that we’re paying is the stress that we’re going through, the worry that we could go through this again," the man said. "We hope and pray to God that it won’t."

Nobody saw the shooter, and so far police don’t have a suspect.

“Many times in these cases there’s very little eyewitness information, so they’re very frustrating cases to work,” Roswell Police Department Officer Travis Holley said.

Thirteen hours later and halfway across town another home was targeted. This time the shooter used a 9 mm handgun.

The family was at home at the time, but again no one was hit.

Police said that gangs will often make a mistake and choose a house that their intended target used to live at.

“This is a gang activity," Holley said. "It comes from the gang culture; gangs retaliate.

"Often times they just slow down far enough. It's an intimidation technique that's used."

A suspect was spotted fleeing from the second home in a silver, early model Cadillac Escalade.