17 Bullets Slam Into Coeur D’Alene House One Lodges In Mattress Of Sleeping Couple; No One Hurt In Early Morning Drive-By

One bullet lodged in a mattress where a couple slept, and another hit an empty couch when nearly two dozen gun shots were fired at a duplex here Friday morning.

No one was injured during the 3:30 a.m. drive-by shooting on 15th Street in Coeur d’Alene. Authorities Friday made no arrests, but were “looking into several possibilities,” said Coeur d’Alene Police Capt. Carl Bergh.

Police said there were no clear motives. It was too early to tell whether the shootings were drug- or gang-related, Bergh said.

He added that there was “no reason to think” the shooting was linked to Wednesday’s gang-related drive-by shooting in a north Spokane neighborhood that left two teenage girls dead and another wounded.

Family members said those who live in the house - brothers Ken and Peter Amy, 27 and 21, and Ken’s wife Sheryl, 19 - were asleep at the time of the shooting.

The Amys’ mother, who also lives there, works nights.

Ken Amy told police he felt bullets hit his mattress in the bedroom on the southeast corner of the building, at 2011 S. 15th Street.

Peter Amy told police he rolled onto the floor at the sound of the shots, which woke up neighbors several hundred yards away.

“I heard what I thought was stuff falling out of the trees. It sounded like twigs breaking,” said Hattie Street resident Wade Miller.

“I live clear at the other end of the block.”

Police said 22 shots were fired at the house and 17 hit it. Four were fired into the front door, three into the south wall and 10 into the wall facing 15th Street.

Some of the bullets that went through the front door landed at the head of a living room couch. The Amys’ mother, who would not give her name, said her sons and friends frequently sleep there. The shots were fired from a small caliber handgun.

The Amy brothers were said to be in hiding after the shots.

When asked if he knew why anyone would shoot at him, Peter Amy reportedly told police “I don’t owe anybody money.”

Police have no good description of the shooter’s car - it was described by neighbors only as a midsize-sounding vehicle.

, DataTimes