NEW YORK (1010 WINS) — A Queens grandmother was struck by an apparent stray bullet as she sat inside her home on Memorial Day, but she believes her life may have been spared by her COVID-stricken husband.
Margaret Henry, 72, was shot inside her South Ozone Park home on 128th Street, near 107th Avenue, around 11:30 p.m. when a black sedan pulled up and someone inside fired repeatedly through a living room window, sources told the New York Post.
Police told the outlet that the retired librarian was shot in the upper right arm.
She described the moment she was hit, telling the Post that the "bullet just went right through where [she] was sitting" as she watched a movie.
"They told me I must have lifted up my hand when I heard the bullet," she added. "They were firing a lot. It must have been more than one person firing, because there [were] a lot of shots."
Meanwhile, Henry told the Post that she believes her life was saved due to her husband's COVID-19 diagnosis.
She said that she had just returned from the hospital after her husband, Gersham Henry, who had tested positive, urinated all over a chair due to incontinence.
Henry said she was sitting in the same chair briefly when she realized it was the same chair he urinated in. She then got up and moved to the chair where she sat when gunfire rang out.
"God is good to me," she added. "I would have gotten shot in the head and the chest and all over because that chair was out in the middle, and it got all kinds of shot up. If he was sitting there, he would definitely be dead. He would have gotten shot in the head, in the chest and all over."
The grandmother, who ended up testing positive for COVID-19 as well, was taken to Jamaica Hospital Medical Center with non-life-threatening injuries.
She said her children now want her to move after the terrifying incident.
"Now I’m afraid," she said.
Sources told the Post that investigators do not believe she was the intended target and are probing whether the gunman targeted the wrong house, or whether the gunfire was intended for someone known to the victim.
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