A single bullet pierced several rooms of a house in the Cascade neighborhood Nov. 11, fired by a Renton man who is now charged with a drive-by shooting.

Raheem O. Johnson, 38, pleaded not guilty at his arraignment Thursday morning. He is free on $50,000 bail.

Johnson called 911 after the shot was fired and waited for officers at a grocery store parking lot on 140th Avenue Southeast. He told the dispatcher he discharged his gun but he asked for an attorney after officers arrived.

But before invoking rights, he told the dispatcher someone was chasing him with bats and hitting his car. The passenger-side windshield was heavily damaged.

Several family members, including a 5-year-old child, were at the house on 121st Avenue Southeast when they heard a loud bang and realized a bullet had hit their house, according to charging documents.

No one was hit but they were scared, according to prosecutors.

One resident lying down in a front bedroom saw a puff of smoke come from the bedroom wall by the door, according to the incident police report.

It was then she realized a bullet had just flown through her bedroom. She could have been hit had she not been lying down, according to the police report.

The family gathered and traced the flight of the bullet: It entered through a bedroom window, passed through bedroom wall and through the living room and into a bedroom and stopped. They called 911.

A single shell casing from a Glock 19 9mm semi-automatic handgun was found on the pavement at a nearby intersection.

Officers found Johnson standing outside his car, arms raised, and a handgun on the passenger seat and a loaded magazine on the driver’s seat, according to charging documents.

Johnson asked whether anyone had been hit by the bullet. When told “no,” he replied “oh, good,” according to the police report. Then he declined to say anything more.

At about the same time, two men approached officers at the shooting scene. They reported that a man in a black Maxima honked his horn in front of their residence nearby, according to charging documents.

They went outside; one man argued with the driver, apparently over money, according to charging documents.

The other man told officers that the driver turned and fired at him from the driver’s-side window as he drove off.

The victims’ house was in a direct line from where the shot was fired.

Johnson was booked into the SCORE regional jail for investigation of first-degree assault and for drive-by shooting.