NEW ORLEANS — A woman says she's lucky to be alive after a stray bullet hit her car while she was driving to work on the interstate Wednesday.
Kim Williams asked Eyewitness News not to show her face because she travels on I-10 every day, and worries the shooters will recognize her.
“I was really scared. It was really horrifying.”
The mother of two was leaving home in Slidell and heading to the French Quarter for work, when all of a sudden just after Crowder, but before the Morrison exit, gunfire erupted.
“I just bent down and I looked to see if I was shot, and I said, 'Okay, I am not shot," said Williams. “I heard a lot of pow, pow. pow and then one shot. The last one was so loud I noticed that it shot my back glass out, so I grabbed my ears because my ears were hurting because it was so loud. Then I was like, Oh my God, they shot my glass out.'”
She says she called 911 immediately, and says dispatch told her to get to a safe location, so she drove to work.
The New Orleans Police Department is calling this an aggravated assault with a firearm. NOPD says at 7:13 a.m. in the 6800 block of Parc Brittany Boulevard, gunfire started between suspects and a victim near the South I-10 Service Road just west of the Crowder Boulevard exit.
“It is possible that the vehicle in the victim was struck by gunfire that emanated from the nearby aggravated assault incident.”
One of the bullets that was fired at Williams' car came through the window and then lodged itself in her car door.
Recounting the moment she said, “If I had a kid and I was bringing him to daycare, he would’ve lost his life today.”
She's thanking God she’s alive today, saying, “It could be anybody, I am on my way to work trying to make an honest living and it happened to me. I was a victim.”