ELYRIA — Two men hit the ground behind a pile of trash Wednesday afternoon to avoid bullets fired from a passing car.

“My knees are still dirty from where I dropped,” said one of the men, who wanted to remain anonymous.

He said he was talking with a neighbor at 2:50 p.m. on the 200 block of Winckles Street when a black Dodge Intrepid with an orange top rolled down the road.

“All of a sudden, I heard (my neighbor) shout to get down and then it was pow, pow, pow, pow — four shots,” the man said.

He said he fell to the grass behind a broken mirror he had taken out to the tree lawn with the trash. In the process, he saw four men in the drive-by car but didn’t get a good look at any of them.

An Elyria police report  said witnesses spotted the front passenger pull a black handgun and point it at the two men on the sidewalk.

After the shooting, the Intrepid sped north on Winckles and turned east on Taylor Street, the report said.

No one was hit by the bullets and no holes were found anywhere, but Elyria police Lt. Andy Eichenlaub said four bullet casings were taken from the scene.

The neighbor later told police the gunman is dating his girlfriend’s sister, but he didn’t know what provoked the shooting.

Contact Jason Hawk at 329-7148 or jhawk@chroniclet.com.

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