Bullet penetrates home; homeowner says he’s ready to move family

Credit: DaytonDailyNews

"It's the scariest feeling in the world," Steven Dybvad said Monday night after a bullet penetrated his home in Trotwood on Sunday night.

"We want nothing more than to be safe," he told News Center 7's Ronnell Hunt.

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Montgomery County Sheriff's deputies think the round came from a high-powered rifle because of how far the slug traveled through the Whitestone Court home Dybvad shares with his fiancee and their 10-month-old son.

He said he took them to the back of the house when the shooting started.

The slug that upsets him most is the one that traveled through an outside wall, continued through the living room, broke a mirror and lodged in an interior wall.

Had that second wall not stopped the slug, it would have landed near the baby's crib, Dybvad said.

Deputies don't know who fired the shots, believed to have come from a vehicle that sped away.

Dybvad said he's thinking about moving his family out of the house they've lived in for less than a year.

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