A shooter kills a family pet in the middle of a Chippewa Falls neighborhood. Now, the cat's owner is scared to go in her own front yard.

"I looked out the window immediately," Heather tells us, pointing to the big window in her living room. Heather was sitting just inches from it Monday night and just feet from where a bullet hit one of her pet cats.

"He was shaking and then he fell down," she says. "I yelled 'no Oliver!' really loud, and then I brought him inside and comforted him until he died."

Heather says she looked around, but didn't see anyone near her home.

"We do believe it was a rifle,” says Lt. John Liddell with the Chippewa Falls Police Department. “They were either very lucky or very accurate. I tend to believe they were accurate."

Either way, Lt. Liddell says the department will continue to search for the shooter.

"Number one it's illegal to discharge a firearm in the city, but then to shoot toward a residence really increases someone's ability to get hurt," Lt. Liddell says.

"He could've missed and I could’ve got shot. And there's a school and the YMCA near here. It's very unsafe, very unsafe," Heather says.

She says she's afraid to let her dogs Sara, Tara and Snoopy outside, and especially her cat Stormy.

"The other cat, no, I'm not going to put him outside to be shot."

Heather says she won't be spending much time out there either.

"I'm really freaked out. I feel very uncomfortable. I feel unsafe to be in my front yard," Heather says.

But, she wants her story heard, in hopes of stopping someone else from going through the pain of losing a pet.

"I hope he hears this, whomever shot my cat and he feels bad and he won't do this to anyone else's cat,” Heather says. Oliver may be gone, but I can speak for him and I will speak for him because he can't"

Heather buried Oliver on Wednesday.

If you have any information about the shooting, please call the Chippewa Falls Police Department at (715) 723-4424.

If caught, the person who shot Oliver could face a $10,000 fine and three and a half years in prison.