DANVILLE (WSLS 10) - Just before 2:45 Tuesday morning, a 67-year-old paper deliverer for the Danville Register and Bee was simply doing his job, delivering papers.
Police say someone shot at his car as he drove down Berryman Ave. Â A bullet shattered his window and he was cut by the glass.
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"My reaction was the normal reaction, which is that we've got to get to the bottom of these," said Danville Police Chief Philip Broadfoot. "It's disturbing for everyone to be in the wrong place at the wrong time."
Mary Carter has lived on the street for years.  She says this does not surprise her, but it certainly worries her.
"It's not even safe to go to the store, sit on your porch," Carter said. 'I've got a little grandson and I don't even want to raise him up over here."
She and her family took cover in the bathroom when she heard the gunfire. "Police [were] up the street, police [were] down the street," Carter said.
Seven hours earlier, a 27-year-old was shot once at an apartment complex in the 200 block of College Park Drive after getting into an argument with someone he knew.
Dudley Clayton has attended the church on Berryman Ave. for around 50 years and helps take care of it.
He says it saddens him to see this neighborhood and this city be taken over by violence, but he also says there may not be any way of reversing the trend.
"I think it's a generational thing, the old folks are dying out and the young people aren't moving in," Clayton said. "Things are changing over here in this neighborhood as they are everywhere else."
As of Tuesday evening, no arrests had been made.