NORTHEAST EL PASO- Last week, we told you about a car found covered with bullet holes in the Northeast. Police eventually tracked down the driver, who had been shot himself.
The man told cops someone tried to carjack him, but he declined to help with the investigation or press charges. Police had to wrap their case right then, but neighbors in the area say there's more to it.
We talked to some who say what happened that night has left them scared.
The car was found right here last week, at a gas station right off the freeway. Just a short distance away, about a quarter mile up the road, sits Acosta Drive.
People living here are scared because of what they heard the night the car was found.
"Around 3:30 a.m. my mom heard like nine gunshots, one right after another, and she woke up to the sound," says Merilyn Rivera, a neighbor in the area.
Merilyn's mom wasn't the only one awakened by the shots. Neighbors who wouldn't go on camera said they called 9-1-1 right away, telling operators about what they described as a gun battle.
One man even told us the shots were so rapid, he suspected an automatic rifle was being fired.
Neighbors think the shots came from somewhere along Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard.
About an hour after initial 9-1-1 calls, the bullet-riddled car was found nearby.
Police did confirm that shots were fired in the area that night, but said all of them were directed at the car.
One military vet in the neighborhood says you can't control where bullets fly, and that's why his neighbors are so scared.
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