A local Sutter Creek business was hit by five bullets Friday evening, as well as car parked nearby. Photo by: Scott Thomas Anderson

No one was hurt. That was the silver lining Friday evening as Sutter Creek Police looked for suspects who had cruised by the entrance to Bryson Drive and fired six forty-five caliber rounds into a parked car and nearby business.

According to witnesses, the shooting occurred around 6:45 p.m. as the sun was going down. Sutter Creek Police Chief Rob Duke confirmed that were there two witnesses to the incident. "The suspects came down Old Highway 49 by the gateway project and started firing," Duke explained. "It looks like five rounds went into the optometrist office and one hit a parked car."

Duke added that at least two young, white males were in the front seat of the light-colored car from which the shots were fired.

When Sutter Creek Police arrived on the scene, they immediately began conducting area checks. That soon led patrolmen to identify two "persons of interest" in the case.

Back at the crime scene, Duke found some of the forty-five caliber shells and bullets that had hailed down on the business park. On Monday morning Duke drove those pieces of evidence down to the crime lab at the Department of Justice in Sacramento for ballistics testing. Duke said he would update the public on the investigations as soon the testing was done. "That will play a role in whether we upgrade our persons of interests to suspects," Duke observed. "The good news is we have some solid physical evidence in the case and leads we've identified."