Police investigating BB gun drive-by shootings in Urbana

URBANA – Police are investigating a rash of recent BB gun attacks in South Urbana.

According to police reports, men and women were walking or jogging on various streets when someone in a car drove by and shot them with a BB or pellet gun Sunday. Urbana police Investigator Tim McNaught said all the attacks involved three to four men in their late teens or early 20s in a lighter-color older four-door car.

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