MT VERNON, Va. — Polly Usher, 3, says she was terrified.
The loud bangs outside her window woke her up. Then she heard police outside.
On Sunday night, someone opened fire on the next to last block of Frye Road, and Todd Usher is hopping mad about it.
He wants to know why police and politicians haven't done more to keep him safe.
"They started there, where the tire tracks are," Usher said, pointing to the skid marks on the street right in front of his house.
His wife heard tires screeching and then multiple gunshots right outside the window where his twin toddlers were sleeping.
"That's their window. That's the window my wife was standing in front of," Usher said, pointing at his house.
Polly says the shots sounded like fireworks. "Pop, pop, pop, pop... I'm scared of that, that I was hiding in the house," the little girl said, holding onto her dad.
"We're here because of the gunshots. Did you see or hear anything?" a police officer asked Usher in a video captured by his Ring camera on Sunday.
Police say they're still looking for a red car involved in the shooting. They found several shell casings and another car that had been hit. There were no injuries, and so far, no suspects, but a police spokesman says they’re taking this very seriously.
"First we were told they were shooting straight up in the air. Then we were told they were shooting at another car," Usher said. "It could have hit the girls. It could have hit the au pair. It could have hit my wife."
Usher says Fairfax County Police have now stepped up patrols, but he says neighbors have been pushing for years for police to pay attention to thefts, vandalism, and speeding on their section of Frye Road where it dead ends at the Huntley Meadows Park.
Neighbor Chuck Lee says he wasn't that surprised by the shooting. "I look at the news, every day somebody shooting at somebody and somebody getting killed," he said.
Usher can't believe it's taken shots fired to get county supervisors to do something. "I still haven't convinced Jeff McKay or Dan Storck to come down to our neighborhood and to see what it's like down here," he said.
Usher got so mad, he went to the supervisors’ offices Wednesday and demanded a more visible police presence here.
They’ve taken notice. Supervisor Storck says community safety is his top priority and that discharging guns in a neighborhood is unacceptable.
Jeff McKay, chair of the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors, said “We are aware of Mr. Usher’s concerns. My office has been communicating with Mr. Usher and our police department, who in response have increased patrol in his community.”