Strange happenings last night.

[KS63]

I normally would call the non emergency line of ACSO.

[jmg8550]

Yup. I made a 5 second cut with a chop saw at 9pm (my bad - turns out the noise ordinance is 7pm - learn something new everyday) - dude behind my house shot at me at least twice with a BB gun & took out my sliding glass door ($1.7k to replace) because of it.

Rough neighborhood. Glad I don't have to put up with shit like that here.

[.455_Hunter]

When we lived in a quiet Arvada neighborhood, such activities as the OP described would have resulted in a 911 call in about 30 seconds.

[Big E3]

I hear gun shots all the time just, it is Aurora. I've just never been close enough to find out what takes place prior to the shooting. Good to know it’s not a drive by. I would imagine I would be a little uneasy if it looked like they were assembling in my driveway. Might believe they were getting ready to storm the house. I believe I would have awaken the wife, called police, grabbed a couple riot guns and waited inside to see what happened next. Don’t believe I would be going outside to stir the turd or force the issue. But that’s just me.

[brutal]

You wouldn't worry as much if you had a moat.

[Graves]

You should lend him that pile you bought into.

[Squeeze]

Stay inside the house, call the popo, make sure doors are locked, lights are out. Have adequate home defense ready in the event the situation attempts to spill into your home.

[TheGrey]

Thank god nobody in your family was hurt. To answer your question, I would have definitely called the police- if for nothing else than to reassure them that you were not in any way affiliated with the ruckus. Investigations also need a place to start; letting them know where to begin their canvas for questioning would also be nice. Just because you didn't see blood or bodies doesn't mean that bullet didn't go into someone else's home. Call the non-emergency number and tell them you'd like to speak with the PAR officer for your neighborhood and let them know what's going on. Let them decide what to do about it- like cstone said, there are a lot more variables that weren't taken into account.

[hurley842002]

As I saw "homicide investigation" as the headline on one of the local news channels, I couldn't help but think of this thread... At a minimum you could have gotten the investigation process started (if the incidents were related).

[wctriumph]

I have been in a similar situation, people and vehicles in my driveway and in front of the house screaming and cussing at each other. I moved my family to the back of the house, called the police and loaded up the 12 gauge, got dressed and strapped on the pistol. Another car drove by at the end of the block and fired off 7 rounds, one of which hit my truck in my driveway. The two other vehicles took off and the police showed up and blocked at least one of them within a block of my place, the other two at least got out of the neighborhood.

When I looked back on it I figure from the time I woke up, moved the family, called the police, loaded up and got dressed to the drive by shots fired was maybe 4 minutes and less than a minute later the police were there. About 10 minutes went by before the police actually walked up to my door. By then I had removed my pistol and I cooperated with the investigators. The next day I went over to where I thought the drive by vehicle was and I found 6 empty .38 super casings in the street. I used a pencil to pick them up and put them in a baggie and called the police, a detective was there almost as soon as I finished talking on the phone and they took the cases. She let me know that they had 4 suspects in custody. That was when I noticed the hit that my truck took and the she took some photos.