Police On Cantor Incident: 'We're Calling It Random Gunfire'

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In an interview with TPM, a Richmond Police Department spokesman said the bullet that penetrated a window in a building that includes a campaign office of Rep. Eric Cantor (R-VA) was "an act of random gunfire."

"What we were describing yesterday in fact describes an act of random gunfire," said Public Information Manager Gene Lepley.

Cantor held a nationally televised press conference yesterday in which he said, "Just recently, I have been directly threatened. A bullet was shot through the window of my campaign office in Richmond this week." He said he has been targeted not only because he is a member of Congress, but also because he is Jewish.

But a police statement on the incident, which occurred early Tuesday morning, suggested that someone had fired a bullet up into the air and it went through the window of the building on the way back down. While it went through a window, it did not penetrate the blinds, according to the police.

A Cantor spokesman did not immediately return a call for comment.

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Read this as:

Dear Congressional Member,

We at the Richmond Police also feel whomever did this was right in what they did. They have our support. You do not. Partisan politics has gotten us no where. Good luck to you in avoiding the bullets.

-Richmond Police

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Read this as:

Dear Congressional Member,

We at the Richmond Police also feel whomever did this was right in what they did. They have our support. You do not. Partisan politics has gotten us no where. Good luck to you in avoiding the bullets.

-Richmond Police

Yes, the police tampered with the evidence, OJ.