ATLANTA — A senior resident says she is fortunate to be alive after a stray bullet ripped through a wall of her Northwest Atlanta apartment and passed just a few feet over her head before striking another wall in her living room.
“If I would have been standing up, we wouldn’t be having this conversation,” Jamessa Flippin-Perry said.
Flippin-Perry told Channel 2′s Tom Regan she was watching tv in her living room with her two dogs around 9pm Sunday when heard a loud sound.
[DOWNLOAD: Free WSB-TV News app for alerts as news breaks]
“It was like a ka-boom. Very loud. I grab the dogs and I run into the bathroom, and I put them in their cages. And I come out to get my phone and that’s when I noticed the bullet hole,” Flippin-Perry said.
The bullet pierced an outer wall at the front of her home, shattered a kitchen light fixture, and then struck the wall on the other side of her living room. The bullet is still lodged in the wall.
“It’s really frightening. The force and sound was horrific. I haven’t had any sleep. I can’t eat,” Flippin-Perry said.
The resident first thought the bullet was fired from inside the apartment across the breezeway from her apartment. But police suspect the bullet ricocheted off the outer wall, and then flew into her apartment. Or it could have been another bullet fired from the parking lot of the Reserve at Bolton apartments on Bolton Road. She said when she called 911 to report the shooting, she was put on hold twice, before getting a police dispatch.
" They said it looked like a drive-by. I just can’t live under these types of circumstances, knowing that if I’m relaxing, if I’m having a nice day, I may get shot.” Flippin-Perry said..
A friend and neighbor dropped by to offer her support. She too is shaken up by the shooting.
“It’s very scary because that could happen to anybody. This could happen to my apartment. Is somebody targeting us? I don’t feel safe,” neighbor Tenean Porter said.
Atlanta Police say they are investigating the shooting.
Officers canvassed the neighborhood looking for possible witnesses who could tell them from where the shots were fired.
Police also are working to locate surveillance video that may have captured the shooting.
TRENDING STORIES:
- Apalachee school shooting: Bodycam video shows Colt Gray ‘nervous’ demeanor in 2023 investigation
- Former clerk accused of stealing money from GA police department
- Stolen watch led to Forsyth deputies searching an Airbnb. They found more than just furniture
[SIGN UP: WSB-TV Daily Headlines Newsletter]
IN OTHER NEWS:
This browser does not support the video element.