GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) – While out campaigning, alderman Chris Wery tells FOX 11 he heard a loud noise, followed by a pain in his back.
“I felt it in my back, like somebody had thrown a rock at me.”
He says it happened on the corner of Liberty and S. Oneida Street, Saturday afternoon.
“I think it was just random, but again somebody could have gotten hurt. You hit them in the wrong place, in the eye. I don’t care if it’s a pellet or BB.
He says he believes the shots came from a person in a passing vehicle.
Police say they don’t believe Wery was targeted.
“There is a big question mark in the type of car, and the actually number of individuals in it.”
Green Bay Police Chief Andrew Smith says his department has been dealing with other BB related incidents.
He says most of the calls are for property damage, “We don’t have any indication that they shot at any body, the people that were taken into custody.”
Smith added arrests have been made regarding the property damage, and does not believe this latest incident is related,.
“This is an isolated incident, it appears to be as such, if we get more calls like this of course, we’ll add those to the investigation.”
Wery says he’s relieved the incident didn’t result in anyone being seriously injured.
“An elderly person, a kid, could have caught them in the face or the eye.”
Anyone with anyone with information is being encouraged to call Green Bay Police at 920-448-3200.
