The shooting happened in the Ballymaconnell Road area of Bangor
A ten-year-old boy and a woman have escaped injury after shots were fired through the window of a house in Bangor, County Down.
The incident happened shortly after 1900 GMT at Ballymaconnell Road on Saturday night.
The pair were in the house at the time of the shooting.
The woman was taken to hospital and treated for shock.
North Down councillor, Alan Chambers, said the shooting had taken place in what he described as a "quiet residential area".
"I live close by and it is not something that in all the years I have lived in Bangor, I have experienced in this area," he added.
