Despondent Woman Arrested in Random Street Shooting Spree : Thousand Oaks: Bullets hit homes and cars but no injuries are reported. Deputies say she was having marital problems.

Sheriff’s deputies said they arrested a despondent Thousand Oaks woman Sunday night as she cruised quiet residential neighborhoods randomly shooting at houses and cars with a target rifle.

No one was hurt by the .22-caliber bullets that shattered glass in three cars and tore through windows in five houses in Thousand Oaks, said Sgt. Dan Coons.

But Coons remained vague about Kathleen Ann Quinn’s motive for shooting, saying only that the 46-year-old sales representative was having family problems and told deputies she had been depressed.

Quinn was booked at Ventura County Jail on suspicion of shooting into an occupied dwelling and driving while intoxicated during the half-hour spree that hit three neighborhoods just west of Moorpark Road. She was released Monday evening on $5,000 bond, sheriff’s officials said.

“At the point she was arrested, the officer saw her driving around blacked out, with no lights on, and she fired a round at Los Robles Hospital,” said Lt. Lary Reynolds. Hospital officials reported no damage or injuries.

The deputy pulled over Quinn’s car and waited for backup, then arrested her, Coons said.

“I was told that she did slightly resist, but there was no big donnybrook,” Coons said. “She apparently didn’t get out of the car with a gun.”

Quinn, a sales representative for ABC Messenger Service in La Mirada, had moved into her Hodencamp Road apartment about a month and a half ago, neighbors said.

“She was nice, normal . . . a nice dresser,” said Keri Brewster, who lives downstairs from Quinn at the Oak Crest Apartments.

Quinn’s employer has had no problems with her, nor had she discussed any personal problems in the four or five months she worked there, said George Robleto, ABC’s operations manager.

“I really don’t know much about her personal life,” Robleto said. “She goes out and does what she’s supposed to.”

A co-worker, who asked not to be named, said that Quinn had complained of marital troubles.

“I told her to give me a call over the weekend if she needed to talk, but she never called,” said the colleague. He said Quinn had told him some time ago that she sometimes practiced target shooting, but he changed the subject “because I’m very sensitive about guns.”

Quinn fired Sunday night at apparently random targets, some of them occupied houses, Coons said.

“We don’t know if she was shooting at people, although there were people at home in some of the residences,” Coons said. “We have no indication that she was aiming at anyone. . . . If we did, we’d be booking her for attempted murder.”

Mark Zambrano of Thousand Oaks recalled hearing gunshots at about 10 p.m. Sunday, but he said he avoided looking outside his Hendrix Avenue house in case people were shooting at him. Later he discovered three windows on his Volkswagen bus had been shattered.

Zambrano said he was worried that some of the emotionally troubled teen-agers he works with as a recreational therapist might be attacking him. “I didn’t look out the window--you look out the window and they’ll blast you,” he said. “(I) heard tires squealing, and . . . just kept on hearing shots, like five or six of them as they went around the corner.”

A Lucero Street resident said he heard two shots--one of which sent a bullet through the living room where his wife and son were watching television.

He said his wife thought the television set had exploded when the bullet punched through the wall just above it, cut across the living room about 5 1/2 feet above the floor, then smashed through blinds and out a back window.

“That’s not something you would want to have happen every day,” the man said of the shooting. “We wanted to know what the reason was, so we called the police.”

The family learned from sheriff’s deputies that three other shootings had already been reported, he said. “It was kind of comforting to know it was random.”

At a home on Summerfield Street, a bullet tore through a plate-glass picture window and struck a bird in the living room before lodging in the ceiling, Lt. Reynolds said. The bird survived, he said.

A neighbor said that the homeowners were extremely upset by the incident. “They had moved up here from the (San Fernando) Valley to get away from all this,” she said.