HIGH POINT, N.C. — A High Point woman can't believe her luck after a stray bullet went through her car door and injured her.
Kwanza Eleby, 39, was grazed by a bullet while driving in High Point, Thursday afternoon.
According to High Point Police, the incident happened in the 400 block of Gordon Street around 4:47 p.m.
Eleby said she had just pulled out of her driveway and was driving down the street when she heard gunshots.
She said she decided to pull over immediately to avoid getting caught in the crossfire. That's when she discovered she had been hit.
"Once I pulled over, felt something burn and then when I look down I realized my shirt, I had a white shirt on, and my jeans, they both had holes in them and that's when I saw the blood and I was like 'Oh Lord'," said Eleby.
At that point, she called 911 to report the incident. Officers and EMS responded and Eleby was taken to High Point Regional for non-life-threatening injuries.
"I was lucky, that's a pretty big hole in that car. I don't know how bullets work, I don't know what slowed it down or stopped it, but I was lucky," she said.
Eleby says the increasing gun violence is getting to close for comfort for her and her family. She said all she had been thinking about over the past 24 hours was that her family could have been planning her funeral.
"It's sad that you just don't feel safe where you were born and raised. Like we didn't have these problems when we were younger. They are just out here shooting and shooting and don't care who's being hit and you're taking people from their families."
"They could've taken life from somebody. I'm not a perfect person, I have faults did things in my life, but you could've taken me from my parents. I have a brother and you could've taken me for my brothers, my nieces, and nephews, I have people who love me," she said wiping tears from her face.
High point police are investigating the incident and are still trying to identify the suspect responsible for firing the shots. Police ask anyone who knows anything to call them