Crime & Safety

Parkvale Road Shooter Was 'Firing Everywhere'

A woman escaped injury after an intruder fired a handgun at her at close range.

A miracle.

That is how Victor Lantang described what unfolded in his home in the Aspen Hill neighborhood of Rockville on Tuesday morning.

Lantang said a man entered through a back basement door and fired two shots at his wife, Jung, from about six feet away. The shots missed hitting her.

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A short time later, in the North Creek Villas condominiums behind the Lantang’s single-family home on Parkvale Road.

Feinstein, 40, faces multiple charges including first-degree assault, first-degree burglary and firearm charges.

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Early Tuesday evening, Lantang stood in the driveway of his home, recounting the incident to a neighbor.

Lantang said he was in an upstairs bathroom when he heard the commotion. Neighbors called police about 8:52 a.m. to report a man firing outside the condominiums and at the Lantang home.

Lantang’s 4-year-old granddaughter and a friend’s 2-year-old son were in the home at the time, he said.

Jung Lantang encountered the man attempting to climb the stairs from the basement, Victor Lantang said.

The man pointed a handgun and fired twice. He then shouted something unintelligible, left the house through the same basement door where he entered and continued “firing everywhere,” Victor Lantang said.

“It’s a miracle [that] happened in this house,” he said. “In human thinking [there is] no way anyone [could] point a gun at you from that far away and miss.”

Jung Lantang showed the bullet holes in the walls of her home in a report on ABC 7.

Victor Lantang said he recognized the man as a motorcycle owner who lived in the condos behind his home. Lantang greeted the man on occasions when he saw him in the condo complex's parking lot. But he did not know him well.

“[A] very strange guy,” Lantang said.

Police do not know why the man began shooting. An investigation continues.

Lantang said he bought the home in 1976, moved away for a few years in the mid-1980s and moved back in 2006. He said he had never had any problems with neighbors on his street or in the condos.

“It’s a really nice neighborhood,” he said.

The incident won’t change that, he said.

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