A Brockton mother and her five children had a close call Friday when a stray bullet when through the windshield of her SUV.Watch the report"I'm looking at the bullet hole and I'm thinking that it could have been me or whoever was sitting behind me," Susie Ciulla-Hall said. "My little one is traumatized."Ciulla-Hall had just arrived home from school in the family SUV around 3 p.m. and walked into their home when shots rang out."We heard three gunshots," she said. "We saw someone running, and heard a car take off."Brockton police are still investigating the incident, but they said it appeared as though a man had posted a fake ad online to sell a dirt bike and when another man answered the ad and showed up on Washburn Street with money to buy the bike the seller pulled out a BB gun and tried to rob him.The buyer pulled out a real gun, though, and opened fire, hitting the would-be robber."It's scary, Ciulla-Hall said. "It's such a quiet neighborhood. We've never, ever had anything like this happen."The shooting remains under investigation.

A Brockton mother and her five children had a close call Friday when a stray bullet when through the windshield of her SUV.

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"I'm looking at the bullet hole and I'm thinking that it could have been me or whoever was sitting behind me," Susie Ciulla-Hall said. "My little one is traumatized."

Ciulla-Hall had just arrived home from school in the family SUV around 3 p.m. and walked into their home when shots rang out.

"We heard three gunshots," she said. "We saw someone running, and heard a car take off."

Brockton police are still investigating the incident, but they said it appeared as though a man had posted a fake ad online to sell a dirt bike and when another man answered the ad and showed up on Washburn Street with money to buy the bike the seller pulled out a BB gun and tried to rob him.

The buyer pulled out a real gun, though, and opened fire, hitting the would-be robber.

"It's scary, Ciulla-Hall said. "It's such a quiet neighborhood. We've never, ever had anything like this happen."

The shooting remains under investigation.