Bullet goes through NECN/NBC Boston reporter’s home in Winooski, Vt.
Jack Thurston was getting ready for bed late Tuesday night at his Winooski, Vt., home when he heard a loud sound in the storage loft above his bedroom.
When the NECN/NBC Boston reporter went to investigate, he found a bullet that had cracked his double-pane window and landed in a storage tote that holds Christmas decorations.
Now, police are trying to figure out where the bullet came from.
But Thurston, the NECN/NBC Boston bureau correspondent for Vermont, isn’t worried, and he doesn’t want anyone else in his community to be worried either.
He doesn’t believe he was targeted, and said it was likely just a stray bullet. His town has a robust hunting culture, despite not having a shooting range within town limits.
“It has happened before where someone’s taking a shot at a deer or a moose or whatever, legally with a permit, of course, and they miss and the bullet goes across a field and hits the side of a house,’’ he said.
And even that is rare, he said. He can remember a handful of times stray bullets have flown through houses in the last 15 years that he has been a reporter in the area.
Thurston’s experiences as a reporter have also helped him put his situation in perspective. He has covered tragedies involving stray bullets in the past, he said. He’s just lucky and relieved that no one got hurt.
“As a reporter, this is the kind of thing we cover,’’ he said. “That really helps me keep this in perspective. … What happened to me was just a minor blip.’’
He is helping the Winooski police department get out the word — if anyone knows where the bullet came from, he asks that they call police.
