Why are bullets hitting houses in this Syracuse suburb?

On Oct. 14, a bullet struck the garage door of a house on Arch Stone Way in Camillus. The bullet passed through an aluminum door panel and entered a cardboard box inside, approximately 10 feet from the garage door.

It wasn’t the first time that a stray bullet had struck the house on Arch Stone. Just five days earlier, a bullet hit the exterior wall of the garage, leaving a hole in the tan vinyl siding.

On Firefly Way, a dead-end street lined with tidy suburban homes across the street from Arch Stone, three other houses have also been struck by stray bullets in the past month.

Since 2012, there have been 20 reports of bullets hitting houses in the Waterbridge neighborhood. Bullets have also landed in streets and driveways, or rolled off roofs. One bullet was found at the bottom of a pool