PREG MOM: ‘I GOT SHOT’
Struck by bullet from outside home
A pregnant Colorado woman sleeping in her bed was struck by a stray bullet that narrowly missed her two children.
Kendall Heinold was at home in Aurora early Thursday when she heard gunfire and felt a sharp pain in her left side.
“My husband was sleeping next to me and he got up and was like, ‘Did you hear that?’ Because it was so loud, and I just looked at him and was like, ‘Babe, call 911, I just got shot,’ ” Heinold told KDVR-TV.
Heinold, 27, was rushed to a hospital, where doctors found a bullet lodged in her shoulder.
However, because she is 16 weeks pregnant, doctors decided to leave the bullet in her rather than place her under anesthesia for surgery.
Aurora police said the bullet may have struck Heinold after traveling hundreds of feet over a greenbelt behind her home, according to KDVR.
Heinold and her husband later found a bullet hole in the house just inches from where her children, ages 5 and 6, had been sleeping.
The bullet went through the kids’ room first, she said.
“The bullet missed my 5-yearold daughter’s head by like a foot, and went through their room, through my closet, and into my pregnancy pillow,” Heinold told the station.
She said she believes the pregnancy pillow “is what saved my life,” because it changed the bullet’s trajectory before it hit her.
Security footage from a neighbor’s home recorded at least eight gunshots that morning.
“I don’t think I was targeted, I don’t think this was intentional, but I think people need to know — when a gun is shot, the bullet goes somewhere,” Heinold said.
“Luckily, it missed my children and my baby and my dog and my husband, but ended up in my arm, which I think is best-case scenario, considering, but still scary,” she added.