Lockport Police Chief Larry Eggert overlooks a crime scene at 106 Gooding St. this afternoon (PHOTOS BY HEATHER N. GRIMMER / ENP PHOTOGRAPHER)

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Lockport police investigate a crime scene on Gooding Street where a house was shot early this morning.

Lockport Police Department officers and brass are on scene at a Gooding Street home where a shooting happened this morning.

According to Police Chief Larry Eggert, they believe the shooting happened around 2:30 a.m., but no one heard anything and no one called LPD until this morning.

Eggert said the incident at 106 Gooding Street is "just like" a shooting that happened Tuesday morning on Church Street.

No injuries were reported in either incident but property was damaged in both.

Asked if the shootings were related, Eggert said "We're looking into it. We did recover some evidence yesterday. We recovered some evidence today." The police are waiting on lab results to say definitively that they're related.

Eggert did say, however, that the shootings have at least one thing in common: "I'm going to give you a best guesstimate. This is not a random shooting."

Eggert said that as in the case of the Church Street shooting Tuesday morning, the house was specifically targeted.

"It's not like people have to be afraid of a car driving by with a machine gun shooting because that's not the case," the chief said.

As for the lack of witnesses, Eggert said it's possible that people thought the gun fire was fireworks. In the past, that's been a safe assumption, but that isn't the case anymore and LPD asks people to call even if they think the "pops" they heard might be fireworks.

Neighbors told police they didn't hear the gunshots that occurred early this morning. Police believe the incident happened around 2:30 a.m.

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