Here is a statement released by the Richmond, Virginia Police Department regarding the incident that Congressman Eric Cantor spoke about earlier today:
The Richmond Police Department is investigating an act of vandalism at the Reagan Building, 25 E. Main St., Richmond, Virginia. A first floor window was struck by a bullet at approximately 1 a.m. on Tuesday, March 23. The building, which has several tenants including an office used by Congressman Eric Cantor, was unoccupied at the time.
A Richmond Police detective was assigned to the case. A preliminary investigation shows that a bullet was fired into the air and struck the window in a downward direction, landing on the floor about a foot from the window. The round struck with enough force to break the windowpane but did not penetrate the window blinds. There was no other damage to the room, which is used occasionally for meetings by the congressman.
The Richmond Police Department is sharing information about the incident with appropriate law enforcement agencies.
Reading the statement, it’s not at all clear that someone actually shot at Cantor’s office, or at anything else in the building.
[...] @ 4:40pm Cantor's bullet story doesn't seem to hold water based on a preliminary police [...]
So this incident is exactly like all the “violent” incidents that the left is claiming, huh?
Paul,
Except we know that someone sent a picture of a noose to a black Congressman’s office, and another one to Bark Stupak’s office.
I used to live across the street from the Reagan Building, and it would be an exceptionally quiet week that lacked at least a couple incidents of firearms discharged nearby.
[...] on the Richmond Police statement that I wrote about yesterday, it seemed unlikely that that bullet that broke a window in Congressman Eric Cantor’s Richmond [...]