Nicole Gary is in a fog.

    She’s not used to dealing with fear, bullets, police reports, and a process that seems altogether confusing to her.

    Gary said her daughter and a friend of her daughter’s were in the Mazda Millenia registered to Gary, when a man shot five bullet holes in it near an apartment complex on State Boulevard in Meridian just before 9:30 Tuesday night.

    No one was injured.

    Gary said she called 911 after her daughter called her to tell her what happened. She said a police officer interviewed her and her daughter, then they were told to go to the police station. Gary wanted to file charges, but at the police station she said she was told no detectives were available and to come back the next day.

    According to Gary the identity of the suspect was also given to police when she was finally able to talk to a detective Wednesday about 11 a.m.

    On Thursday at noon Gary said she asked about the case.

    “I was told nothing’s been done because the judge hasn’t signed a warrant yet,” said Gary, who is also acting on the best advice she said she was given by police, which was to have her daughter “lay low” for a while, not to go where she normally goes and to stay out of sight. She also said the man identified as the suspect has telephoned her daughter since the incident. So, Gary’s daughter isn’t going to work, or school for now.

    Thursday afternoon Gary said she went to the police station to try to get a copy of a report concerning her case, but was told she has to talk to the detective on the case, and that the detective wasn’t there. She was told to get with the detective today.

    “Maybe some kind of law needs to change here,” said Gary, frustrated with the police department. “I’m just really not happy. I feel like if it was one of their kids they would have been picked up, no questions asked.”

    Meridian Police Chief James Reed was familiar with the case when asked about it Thursday afternoon, but was limited in what he could say about it.

    “That case is under investigation,” he said. “We have done several interviews. I can’t tell you any more than what I’m telling you.”

    He said he was aware of the family’s concerns.

    “We’re not taking any case lightly. Everyone is extremely busy,” he said.

    Asked to comment specifically about the statement Gary made referring to a judge having not signed a warrant yet, Reed said he would be able to have an answer to that question today.

    Gary still feels like a sense of urgency is missing.

    “It’s not fair to other citizens around that there’s somebody out there who doesn’t mind shooting at people,” she said.