ATLANTA — An 18-year-old woman was shot in the chest when stray bullets flew through her window in northwest Atlanta.
Marissa Lancaster and her friend Courteria Poitier said they were eating dinner Wednesday night in the bedroom of their apartment on Perry Boulevard when they heard gunfire.
They thought the shots were part of a movie being filmed at an old elementary school nearby.
"I heard the noise get closer and I was like, 'I don't think this is part of the movie," Poitier said.
The young women realized the shots were coming from a car. They believe someone was shooting out of the window.
"They were definitely in a car because of how fast the bullets were going," Poitier said.
One bullet came through the window of their apartment and hit Lancaster in the shoulder.
"It stung really bad, like really bad. It hurt really bad," she said.
She was taken to Grady Memorial Hospital. Doctors said it would be too dangerous to remove the bullet.
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Lancaster's father said he jumped out of bed when he got the call that his daughter had been shot.
"Get up, and put some clothes on and go," Rick Lancaster said.
The father said he's upset because his daughter was just an innocent bystander.
"Reevaluate your thought process. Get some God in your life and educate your mind," he said. "If you don't educate yourself, man, you're just going to go out there and shoot my damn daughter. I'm done!"
Police said they are trying to figure out who fired the shots. They said no one got a tag number or a good look at the car.