Stray bullet tears through rural Lincoln home

Tuesday afternoon, Mike McNair got home from work to find a bullet hole in his garage door. It didn’t take long for him to notice holes in his living room, too.

“I’d seen a hole in the garage and thought it looked funny cause the metal on the garage door was going out. I thought it was a gun shot but wasn’t sure, so I went inside, sure enough you could see the hole through the garage, through the living room, from the back of the house you could see it coming in,” McNair says.

Officials say, the bullet likely came from a hunting rifle.

“It would’ve had to have been a high powered rifle to travel through exterior walls, two exterior walls and interior wall and then exit the house so it would have had to been a relatively high powered round,” says Sheriff Terry Wagner with the Lancaster County Sheriff’s Office.

McNair says that living in a rural area, it’s not uncommon for people to be hunting or shooting, but he says hunters need to be aware of their surroundings so things like this don’t happen again.

“Just be careful cause luckily we were gone during that window of time we weren’t here and that bullet came through the house at eye level and we’d been walking through there we could be talking about something different,” McNair says.

As a shooter and hunter himself, McNair isn’t necessarily concerned about people hunting or shooting in the area. He’s more concerned about hunters checking the area they’re in.

“This bothers us, because somebody took a bad shot, you always gotta take a look at whats behind the deer, behind the animal you’re shooting, and somebody didn’t pay attention,” he says.

Fortunately McNair will be able to repair his house himself. Now, he’s just thankful everyone is safe, and hopes hunters in the area will be more vigilant.