Residents fear a gun fired in a leafy Glasgow suburb is a warning.
Worried locals in Rannoch Drive, Bearsden awoke to a heavy police cordon around much of their street after a shot was heard in the early hours of this morning.
Road signs and police tape greeted neighbours and families escorting their children to nearby Killermont Primary and Nursery.
One resident said: "Welcome to leafy Bearsden.
“I was up at six o’clock this morning and the first thing I saw was all of the police.
“It seems someone fired a shot just half-an-hour before I got up. I slept right through it.
“I saw two officers kitted up in white forensic suits walking down the street.”
Police raced to the scene after reports of gun fire at 5.30am.
Another neighbour said: "My next door neighbour said he heard the shot go off.
“He didn’t know what to think.
“He came into my garden still in his pyjamas asking if I knew what was going on.
“I had to tell him I hadn’t even heard the shot.
”It looks like this was some kind of warning to someone.
“Another neighbour told me he had heard the shot and it was unmistakably a shotgun blast.
“It is not the kind of thing you want to hear in a street like this were there are a lot of children.”
Much of the police activity centred on a semi-detached house with a white BMW parked in the driveway.
It was unclear if the car itself was damaged, but a glass panel next to the door of the property was smashed.
One local said: "I've been told a car drove into the street early this morning and a man got out with a shotgun and fired once. The blast smashed part of a window panel.
"He then got back into the car which drove away.
"It is terrifying that this kind of thing can go one here, even if it does seem to have been targeted at a specific person."
And an elderly resident spoke of his shock over the incident, adding: "I’ve lived here 40-odd years an I have never seen police in the street, never mind on this scale.
“It is a quiet neighbourhood with good families and this is the last thing you would think would happen here.”
Police say no one was injured and added that enquiries are at an ”early stage”.
