A shooting at the home of a Jewish Margate resident last year left two vehicles and the victim’s house riddled with bullets while children slept inside – an attack authorities later linked to gunman John Lapinski, according to law enforcement records.
Thirteen bullet holes or bullet-grazed areas were found at the crime scene following the August 21, 2024, attack. Several bullets penetrated a wall of the house. Others shattered a front glass window of the home and lodged in an interior wall, according to Margate Police documents obtained by Margate Talk through a public records request.
Other bullets struck the two vehicles parked outside the house, records state. The shooting happened as multiple children and their parents were inside the home, the gunfire awakening them from sleep. No one was injured in the attack…