DUNMORE -- It was a scary situation for a family in Lackawanna County when a bullet flew through their window on the highway.
A family from Lackawanna County had a very close call on the way to a baseball game Tuesday evening. They say a bullet went through an open window of their SUV, narrowly missing a 13-year-old boy.
The Murphy family from Dunmore was eastbound on the Casey Highway in Throop on their way to one of their son's baseball games when they all heard a loud bang. They didn't think anything of it until hours later when they got home and that 13 year old found a bullet in the back seat.
The small dent in the rear window of Nicole Murphy's Jeep doesn't lend itself to the big noise she and her family heard.
"Just a very big, like, bang, as if, probably like, if a boulder hit my car, or I ran over something huge in the middle of the road," she recalled.
Nicole, her husband, and their two sons were here headed east on the Casey Highway (Route 6) near the Marshwood Road exit (1). The sound startled them but they carried on to a baseball game in Carbondale.
Once they got home, Nicole was startled again when her 13-year-old son pulled what troopers say is a .40 caliber bullet that caused the big bang and then lodged itself in the head rest of the seat where the 13 year old was sitting.
"I've been going through it since last night and the only thing I really keep coming back to is, I'm so grateful that my son is still here. If it wasn't for that phone, it might be a totally different story."
Nicole says her son was playing on his smart phone at the time. His head leaning forward very likely saving his life.
State troopers took the bullet for investigation and told Nicole it's possible the shooter was driving in the opposite direction.
"I might find a different route now. I just wanted everyone to be aware that this did happen and you don't think it could happen to you, and it did last night to me and my family."
The Murphys say troopers have visited them twice to collect evidence from their SUV.
Anyone with information about who may have fired that shot Tuesday night is asked to call state police in Dunmore.
