Coralville men charged after car window shootings

Two young Coralville men are facing criminal mischief charges after two separate car windows were shot out in town.

According to Coralville police Lt. Shane Kron, one victim had just returned home at about 9 p.m. Wednesday and got out of his car along Pembrokeshire Drive in Coralville when he witnessed another car driving by his home slowly.  The man said he saw a passenger lean in front of the driver, just before the victim's car window "exploded."

The man was able to provide a description of the suspect vehicle to police, reports show, and officers located the vehicle a short time later, finding and seizing a BB pistol inside.

The shooter was identified as Erman Kraina, 18, of 807 19th Ave., who reportedly admitted to police he shot at the window. While being questioned, he also admitted to shooting out the window of another parked car on Westview Drive at approximately 8 p.m. Wednesday.

Dino Lisinovic, 18, of 1003 19th Ave., was identified as the driver. He reportedly admitted he drove while his accomplice shot at the cars.

Kron said the incidents were random and untargeted, and the men didn't have any known relationship with the victims.

"Every year we have this," Kron said of the BB gun incidents. "Sometimes it's in the summer. Sometimes it's in the winter. We'll usually get a string of them."

Iowa City police also questioned the men after receiving reports of two other parked car windows being shot out on the west side of town Wednesday morning, Kron said.

Kraina and Lisinovic denied they had any involvement, Kron said.

Kraina is charged with two counts of fourth-degree criminal mischief, serious misdemeanors, and Lisinovic is charged with two counts of aiding and abetting fourth-degree criminal mischief, also serious misdemeanors. They were both being held at the Johnson County Jail Thursday on $5,000 cash bonds.