Stray bullets striking homes, businesses in Lehigh Valley neighborhood

STOCKERTOWN, Pa. (WPVI) -- Residents in the Lehigh Valley say their lives are in danger by stray bullets flying into their neighborhood.

They say the bullets have hit their homes and landed in their backyards and believe they're coming from a nearby gun club.

The residents say they feel like the bulls eye is on their community.

"They've been hitting the house, flying over our heads and whistling past our heads," said Eric Fuls of Stockertown, Pennsylvania.

Fuls says he believes the bullets are coming from the Stockertown Rod and Gun Club Firing Range, which is less than half a mile away.

It's gotten so bad that he will no longer allow his children to play outside when the range is open.

"My older son and his friends were down along the edge of the bank just messing around and the next thing you know there's bullets bouncing off the trees next to their heads. You know, they had to duck for cover," he said.

And the Fuls are not the only ones with concerns.

Several neighbors and businesses in this area have been complaining about bullets landing on their properties for years.

Thomas Devery says he never found the bullet, but he is sure the damage done to his truck a few years ago was the result of a straight shot.

"I found a big gash in the center of my windshield....it didn't go through the windshield but it was grazed. You could actually lay your pinky right in the hole," says Devery.

Local police have been notified, but the problem is that there is no way of knowing for sure if the shots are coming from the range or from rogue hunters milling around this rural patch of Northampton County.

Fuls, an avid gun owner himself, does not want the gun club shut down.

But he says nearly every bullet that landed in his neighborhood was traveling from the direction of the range.

His hope is that gun club officials will put in added safeguards before it's too late.

"How much does it cost to put up a couple of wireless cameras and have them hook it to a computer system to see who is actually down on the range? How hard is it to put a log book up down there?" Fuls said.

Neighbors say they have handed in bullets to the Stockertown Police Department but still little progress has been made in this case.

The local force is primarily a part-time department and no one was available for comment.

Action News also tried to reach out to officials from the gun club, but they kicked us off the property.

There have been no reported injuries from the stray bullets.