PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Five people were injured, one seriously, in drive-by paintball shootings throughout the city over Halloween.

In the late hours before and after midnight, police were called about people being injured by paintball guns in Elmhurst, the Valley and the West End.

Timothy Brelsford, 22, told police that a masked man in a green Cadillac shot him in the left eye while he was walking by 295 Academy Ave. Wednesday night. Brelsford's injury was serious enough to have him taken to Rhode Island Hospital for treatment.

Early Thursday, around 12:40 a.m., Sarah Paiva, 22, and Blaze Lemin, 26, told police that men in a silver sedan shot paintballs at them on Chapin Street, leaving them with welts on their legs.

Fifteen minutes later, Chen Pin Shou, 22, and Chenxuan Li, 28, flagged down an officer and reported that a passenger in an old white Honda CRV fired paintballs at them outside the Rising Sun Mills. Both men had welts, but did not require medical treatment, according to a police report.

There were no arrests.