Police Building Fired On In Sacramento
SACRAMENTO (CBS13) -- It's not a place you'd expect to be shot up -- a prominent Sacramento Police building. Black and whites fill the parking lot and dozens of cruisers drive on Richards Boulevard each day, showing a heavy police presence.
"People know this as a police building. There's police cars all over the place, cars coming in and out," Sgt. Andrew Pettit said in an interview with CBS13's Laura Cole about the Richards Police Facility at 300 Richards.
And it's not just officers who work at the facility. Several city departments are housed there too, including the Community Development Department. That office is on the third floor.
"People were saying, 'boy you missed all the excitement," said the department's Ron O'Connor. "They had told us that somebody shot something."
That somebody fired pellets at the building, hitting four windows on the third floor, shattering two and cracking the others.
"Our concern is that this is a police facility, people know that it's a police facility, and that their target were possibly police officers," Pettit said. "And even if it wasn't police officers, they know that it is occupied by several members of the city."
The building has surveillance cameras but not aimed right at the windows, so there are few clues for investigators, who think they're probably the victim of a drive-by shooting.
"It sounds pretty ridiculous that somebody could shoot at the police department," one resident said.
But even more concerning is what could have happened if the pellets penetrated through the second window pane.
"If somebody had used something a little heavier, some innocent person could have gotten hurt or killed," O'Connor said.
