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Nearly half of drive-by shootings reported in 2007 through October occurred between 10 p.m. and 6 a.m., often inhibiting witness descriptions of suspects or vehicles in the dark, according to Tucson Police Department data.

Though drive-by shootings occasionally occur during the day, the majority happen at night, said Sgt. Fabian Pacheco, a department spokesman. That's because those doing the shootings don't want people to get a good look at them or their vehicles, he said.

Police responded to 76 reports of drive-by shootings from January through October 2007, according to Police Department data released to the Arizona Daily Star.

Drive-by shootings are rarely random, Pacheco said. They are usually targeted, whether between competing gangs or involving some kind of conflict with other gang members, he said.

The police data released to the Star show that, during the 10-month period in 2007, police were called out to two locations for multiple reports of drive-bys: Police responded to reports of drive-bys in the 1400 block of West Ontario Street two nights in a row — Oct. 15 and Oct. 16.

Both those reports occurred at night — the first at around 8:30 p.m. and the second shortly before midnight.

Police also responded to reports of drive-by shootings in the 1600 block of West St. Mary's Road on two occasions. The first occurred after midnight on June 27, and the second occurred at 10:41 a.m. on Oct. 17.

Though those two sites of multiple reports are near each other, drive-by shootings occurred throughout Tucson.

"As far as geographic areas within the city, these drive-bys unfortunately happen everywhere," Pacheco said.