Sydenham resident concerned after finding a bullet in his basement.

Jeff Green | Dec 04, 2019

Ryan Vowles lives on Morgan Drive, in a newer subdivision in Sydenham, not far from Sydenham High School, with his wife Maegan Leavitt and their young children. The family moved into their new home 5 years ago and say they love living in Sydenham.

But they don’t love what happened a couple of weeks ago.

Sometime between Saturday, November 16th and Thursday, November 30, someone shot at their house.

“I went into my basement on Thursday and noticed a small hole in the wall. When I went to look at it, I saw that there was something on the floor next to the hole. I thought it was a bug but when I picked it up, I realised that it was a bullet. I went outside and saw that the bullet hit the house and made it through the siding and all the other house material all the way to the basement,” said Ryan Vowles.

Vowles said that he had been in the basement on Saturday afternoon, and if the hole had been there at that time he would have seen it.

Vowles added that the yard behind the house ends at some swampy and wooded land, which is likely where the bullet came from.

“It is pretty alarming to realise that someone fired a rifle towards our house,” he said. “My wife is home a lot now, as she is on maternity leave, and she spends a lot of time playing with the kids in the yard near where the shot must have come from. The kids’ bedrooms are upstairs from the bullet hole as well, so that makes us even more concerned.”

He said that he has contacted both the Frontenac detachment of the OPP and the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry about what happened. Investigators from both have come out to his house and they have launched investigations.