Bullet pierces Norwalk home, close call for mother and children

NORWALK, Conn. (WABC) -- A mother and her baby are lucky to be alive.

The mother was cooking dinner for her family in Connecticut, when a bullet fired from outside came whizzing by.

It just barely missed her and her child.

As Laura Moncada cradles her 6-month-old daughter, she is terrified of her family's close call.

"I'm still nervous, last night I couldn't sleep because I'm scared," Moncada said.

She's scared because of the bullet that passed right through her son's room in broad daylight Tuesday afternoon.

"I was cooking when I heard the gunfire, but I didn't know what it was until I went to see where it was coming from and I saw the wall had the bullet hole," Moncada said.

It happened at 5 p.m. on Meadow Street in Norwalk. A single bullet, police say, penetrated the outside wall of her Moncada's house, and embedded itself in an inside wall.

"Police were investigating inside the house and they found the bullet, but police did not tell me what exactly happened. I want to know what happened; I don't know anyone here; was it an accident?" Moncada said.

Police say they just don't know. Norwalk detectives are investigating as this mother of two wonders if it's time to find another place to live.

"I want to move out of here. I want to move, I pass my kitchen and I think another bullet might come through again," Moncada said.

No one was inside the room at the time of the shooting.