Vandalism, gunshots leave Kalispell apartment complex residents on edge

Amber Bright was skinning a deer with her husband behind their apartment Sunday night when she heard a sort of whooshing sound.

“We kind of talked about it for a second, but we just assumed it was sprinklers,” she recalled.

It was about 10 p.m. behind the Colonial Villa apartment complex at 836 E. Washington St. Bright kept hearing the same sound at random intervals.

While looking up from the deer she was dressing, Bright said she saw a man she had never seen before walk out of a carport on the property.

Bright described him as a roughly 6-foot-tall man with blondish hair, a baseball cap, white shirt and what looked like jeans and hiking boots.

“I thought maybe it was one of the new people who had moved in and he had just went under the carport to smoke,” Bright said. “The only thing