Stray Bullet Enters Sleeping Radnor Child's Bedroom

Radnor Township Police said someone using a road sign for target practice missed -- and the bullet ended up in the bedroom of a sleeping Radnor Township child.

Zach Marino was asleep in his home on the 600 block of Bryn Mawr Avenue just after midnight on Thursday, Jan. 29, as any 12-year-old would be, NBC Philadelphia said. He was awoken by what his parents thought was an animal hitting the house, NBC said.

It wasn’t until Saturday, when his mother was cleaning his room, that she found a hole in the wall and a bullet on the carpet, 6ABC said.

“I was shaking. I was scared. I felt like something sort of invaded and encroached upon our home,” Laura Marino told ABC.

Radnor Police investigating found bullet holes on the 320 South sign about 70 feet from the Marinos’ home. Police believe someone was using the sign as target practice and missed, according to multiple reports.

“We have somebody who was doing something extremely dangerous that could have caused very serious injuries to the family and we’d like to get it resolved,” Radnor Township Police Lieutenant Christopher Flanagan told NBC.

Anyone who saw anything suspicious in the early hours of Thursday, Jan. 29, is asked to contact Radnor Township Police.