A Dauphin family was left in shock after a bullet came through their kitchen window.
Sam Panko says she had just pulled up to her house when she first heard the gunshots but wasn't sure exactly what they were.
"So I pulled up from daycare pickup, and the neighbours were loading something into the garbage, but I thought they were loading something into a flatbed, so I heard the shots, and I just thought, that can't be gunshots, that's ridiculous, they must be loading metal into something at it's making that noise."
Panko said it was a lot higher pitched than what she thought a gunshot would sound like.
"My gut instinct told me to stay in the car for a minute, so I closed the door and just kept the kids in the car."
After some time had passed Panko wrote it off as no big deal and brought the kids inside.
"I started getting the kids unloaded and I noticed there was glass everywhere. It was all the way into the dining room, almost all the way into the living room, and I just assumed the cats knocked something off the counter."
Panko put her kids away from the glass to clean it up while trying to figure out what had caused such a mess.
"I was so confused. And then our dog flash barked at me, so I looked up, and I saw the hole, and my stomach just dropped."
The lord is so so good! Last night was one of the scariest nights of my life, but it could have been so so much worse....
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Panko dropped everything she was doing and packed the kids up to bring them to her sisters-in-law.
"I called the police as soon as I got in the car. I dropped the Kids off, came back, and the police were already here. I must have left the door open because they were already in the house when I got home, and they were looking for the bullet and checking things out."
The police were at the house all evening, and Panko says they were so helpful.
"They were great, they brought in everybody they could. They brought in the ballistic specialists to see if they could figure out where the bullet went because they still can't find it. They were phenomenal, really easy to work with."
Panko says it could've been a very different night had they not been behind a slow driver on the drive home.
"I told my husband, I said where the bullet went through the window is where I would've been standing making a snack if we were home five minutes earlier."
Panko says they haven't heard anything from the police yet, and they are still searching around the house for the missing bullet.
