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DeLand police vehicles damaged by bullets, officers say

DeLAND, Fla. — Bullets damaged three DeLand police vehicles over the weekend.

Police said the bullets hit a K-9 van, its athletic league van and its crime scene truck.

All the vehicles were parked in the lot at the police station Saturday night into Sunday, which is when neighbors said they heard a car with a loud muffler drive by followed by gunshots.

No one was hurt.

In all, a total of 4 vehicles were hit, by someone who fired off 10 shots before driving off early Sunday morning, police said.

"It's hard to say what their motivation would be, but
I can tell you this; We're not intimated by it we are not afraid," said Chief Jason Umberger.

Umberger said all of his officers were patrolling at the time of the gunfire, so no one was in the building to hear it, however, a corporal had just finished cleaning out his vehicle at the end of the shift.

The shooting missed him, by just 15 minutes.

“Whoever did this, you wonder what their intentions were. There could have been people in that parking lot,” said Umberger.

The chief said he is working with the city to get better security in the parking lot.

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