A Dekalb County girl says she is aware of that “God is actual” after surviving a chilling capturing exterior of her dwelling. As she was about to exit a ride-sharing service, gunfire erupted, and the automotive was hit.
The sufferer, who is selecting to withhold her identify, selected to do an on-camera interview with WAGA-TV FOX5.
The life-changing occasion occurred on June 10, the primary day of the lady’s new job. It additionally was the aftermath of a heated argument between two males close by. She heard them whereas she was pulling as much as the East Perimeter Pointe Residences on Snapfinger Woods in her Lyft and instantly felt uneasy.
“Subsequent factor , we hear gunshots. The three [bullets] hit his automotive, two hit me. The wig I had on stopped one, and one landed in my head. I’ve a bullet in my head proper now,” she stated.
Remarkably, she survived the accidents and believes her life being spared is an act of divine intervention.
“I needed to choose up my belongings from the murder division as a result of no person relying on my making it,” she stated within the interview. “God is actual. I wouldn’t be right here with my children at present if God wasn’t actual.”
Whereas she gave God the glory, she additionally celebrated the Lyft driver, calling him her “hero.” Amid the capturing, he made positive to provide her assist, an act that not solely saved her life however risked his.
“He got here across the automotive—despite the fact that bullets have been nonetheless flying—he got here and bought out of his automotive. One may’ve hit him (however) he held my hand and tried to maintain me aware till the ambulance bought there,” she stated.
She was instantly taken to Grady Memorial Hospital, the place docs have been unable to take away the bullet from her head. She was fortunate; regardless of penetrating her skull, it didn’t make it into her mind.
Authorities from the Dekalb County Police Division are presently investigating the incident, and no arrests have been made to date.
Paradoxically, this isn’t the primary time that one thing like this has occurred. Fourteen years in the past in Kansas Metropolis, a lady survived the same incident the place her weave stopped a 40-caliber bullet from getting into her cranium.
“I invested some huge cash into this weave, and it saved my life,” that sufferer stated in 2009.
Virtually a decade in the past, an 18-year-old girl was shot within the head in Chicago, and her weave saved her.
In 2019, a 22-year-old New Yorker’s bra strap stopped a bullet from piercing her backbone.
Daniesa Murdaugh advised the New York Put up she remembers “feeling a sting” after being shot. She additionally stated she felt the blood from the bullet dripping. She didn’t really feel the bullet.
Medics discovered it after unhooking her bra, and it fell out.
