Atlanta

Woman shot in face while driving to church

By Liz Artz
By Liz Artz

ATLANTA — Police are looking for a group of gunmen who opened fire in a neighborhood, hitting a 61-year-old woman as she drove to church.

The woman said she was driving with her brother through a southeast Atlanta neighborhood on their way to church last Thursday around 9 a.m.

“I was on my way to church to clean the church,” she said.

She said a group of men on Oak Drive near Empire Boulevard started shooting and her car was caught in the middle. She said she heard about 15 shots.

A woman shot while driving to church through a southeast Atlanta neighborhood.

“I don’t know if they were shooting at somebody or if somebody was shooting at them,” the woman said.

A bullet went through the front windshield and hit her in the cheek.

“It hit my cheek and evidently came back out and they found the bullet in the back seat of the car,” the woman said.

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The victim said she and her brother did not get a good look at the armed men because their focus was to get out of danger.

“When he saw the blood, he told me I had been hit so he told me to climb over the seat and he got into the driver’s seat,” the woman said.

Police said they are looking for the driver of a stolen car who they think was the intended target of the shooting.

According to police, a stolen Nissan Altima was involved in a hit-and-run seconds after the shooting and then ditched the car two miles away. They said the stolen car had also been hit by bullets.

The woman said she is thankful that her injuries were not worse.

“I could have been dead the way the bullet came through the windshield. It was pointed right at me,” she said.

She said that it’s by the grace of God that she survived.

“It made me think about how close life and death is. You could be living one minute and dead the next minute. I think about that and I think about how He kept me,” the victim said.

Police said there is video of the car theft that they hope will lead them to the driver of the stolen car and the group of gunmen.

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