A man was left shaken after being stopped by an Ikea bookcase following gunfire at his family’s home.

Daniel, 41, has lived in the same house in Santa Ana, California, for seven years, but a recent shooting at his home has forced him to consider a move for himself and his young family.

“I wasn’t in shock when it happened; I was more in emergency mode and just wanted to protect my family,” he said. news week.

“But after the police arrived and sorted everything out, my mind started to go to a dark place, where I imagined that if I had been shot and my wife would find me in the morning, or worse, my wife or daughter would find me shot.”

news week He reached out to the Santa Ana Police Department for comment.

Daniel, owner of the newly established Saturday Morning Cards tiktok In October, @the.great.curator’s page shows a bullet hole in her window and mirror, a dent in the cabinet, and damage to the bookshelf.

However, the bookcase prevented the bullet from passing through the side wall where his family was sleeping.

he said clipit also shows shattered glass on the floor: “Last night, a stray bullet went through my upstairs window and narrowly missed my head by a few feet.”

He added: “Thank God and my Ikea bookshelf no one was hurt last night.”

Daniel said news week he was in his study late at night and “I heard a loud bang and then the glass breaking.” At first he thought, “Someone might have thrown a stone at my window,” but when he investigated, he saw that the bullet hole had gone through the mirror.

“I knew right away that someone was shooting at my house.”

He dropped to the ground to hide and crawled over the broken glass into the room where his wife and 4-year-old daughter were sleeping; He feared the bullet might “go through the wall and hurt them.”

Once he found them safe, he brought them to the ground with him, because “at that point I didn’t know if someone was trying to kill me, if it was a drive-by, or if someone had broken into my house.”

Daniel grabbed his own gun, turned off the lights, and called 911. When the City of Santa Ana Police Department arrived almost 20 minutes later, they told him he was lucky not to be injured and that the shooting was related to an accident. stray bullet “From a separate incident two blocks away.”

“It’s scary to think about what could happen,” Daniel said news week.

“I made the social media post to help me deal with the traumatic event because if I couldn’t talk about it I think I would feel a lot of anxiety about it.”

Daniel’s video received a huge response online and has been viewed more than 800,000 times. One user wrote: “Time to move.”

“The three most important things in real estate are location, location and location,” said one TikTok user, while another praised “IKEA Bulletproof Furniture.”

Sharing their own scary story, one user wrote: “A stray came through the wall and crawled into the bed I was lying on.”

Relatively few in California gun deaths Data from Statista per capita in the United States showed that the number of gun deaths per 100,000 people in the state in 2024 was 8.7. Rhode Island had the lowest score at 3.1, while Mississippi had the highest score at 29.7.

Daniel said news week: “I feel very, very lucky, and an event like this puts into perspective for me that life is precious and anything can happen at any time. And the Ikea bookcase saved my family’s life.”