Major Bloom thought he was safe sitting in his living room recliner watching television on Saturday night. 

He was sitting just feet from where a stray bullet crashed through his window and into the TV 

“I thought it was pops of firecrackers or whatever, but after about four or five pops, some stuff come off the curtains and started falling on my like paper mache. Because I didn’t know what it was,” Bloom said. “So my daughter came in and I told her the TV went off. TV just went black. Cause the bullet hit the TV.”

Police say a dark colored sedan pulled up to a group of young people near the intersection of Humphrey and 14th Street, just south of Busch Boulevard, when someone inside fired three shots. A 16-year-old girl was hit in the lower body, but her injuries are not considered life threatening. Detectives tell us in this case, as in previous teen shooting investigations, few witnesses are talking.

Major’s wife Joyce also heard the gunfire. 

“Pop, pop, pop. I didn’t pay it any attention because that goes on all the time out here. ” Joyce Bloom said.

Joyce Bloom spends most of her time inside, to avoid the violence. 

“I don’t go outside,” she said. “So I just stay inside the house. Don’t pay it no attention. But last night it was devastating.”

The couple has lived in the neighborhood for more than 40 years, and now cares for their 2-year-old granddaughter Journey. They are concerned with what the violence will mean for her. 

“It don’t make me feel good at all.” Joyce Bloom said. “For my granddaughter to be around all of this. You know what i’m saying? And I’m scared they might come back today. I don’t know. “

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