Mississippi Woman Shot In Head, Makes Tea
By Wyatt Earp | April 19, 2009
Eh, what? No offense to my many readers from Mississippi, but what the Hell do they put in your water?
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – A Mississippi woman who was shot in the head not only survived but made herself tea and offered an astonished deputy something to drink, authorities said Friday. Tammy Sexton, 47, remained hospitalized three days after being wounded by her husband, who killed himself after he shot his wife. A bullet struck her squarely in the forehead, passed through her skull and exited through the back of her head, authorities said. She is expected to fully recover.
“There’s no way she should be alive other than a miracle from God,” said Sheriff Mike Byrd of Jackson County, Miss.
You can say that again.
Byrd said deputies were looking for Sexton’s husband, Donald Ray Sexton, earlier in the week to give him a document ordering him to stay away from his wife. Court records show he was put on probation for six months on April 9 for domestic violence.
He showed up at their home in rural Jackson County in Southeast Mississippi about 12:10 a.m. Tuesday and confronted his wife as a relative ran next door to call police, the sheriff said.
“She was at her bed, and he shot her right in the head,” Byrd said. “Then he went out on the back porch and shot himself.”
Um, ouch! Well, at least the doer offed himself . . . unless that round went straight through, too.
A deputy was greeted by the woman when he arrived minutes after she was shot with the slug from a .380-caliber handgun.
“When the officer got there she said, `What’s going on?’ She was holding a rag on her head and talking. She was conscious, but she was confused about what had happened,” he said. “She had made herself some tea and offered the officer something to drink.”
Byrd said the bullet apparently passed through the lobes of the woman’s brain without causing major damage. (LINK)
There’s a snarky “empty-headed bimbo” comment rattling around in my empty head, but I’ll refrain from making it.
If I were the victim, I would be playing the lottery every day. She is the luckiest person on Earth.
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Wow! I’d say she was in a little shock or something.
I’m glad that she’s been blessed with a second chance at life without worrying about that scumbag for a husband to cause her problems.
When I was a paramedic student, we got called to a local basketball court after a shooting. The police had determined the victim was dead, and wanted us to pronounce him and run a cardiac monitor strip for the coroner.
The guy had been shot right in the forehead with a .32 Colt, and was lying face-up on the basketball court, spread-eagled with his eyes closed.
I ducked under the crime scene tape and was attaching my monitor leads to the guy when I asked the cop “So, what’s the story?”
The guy opened his eyes and said, “Muhfucka shot me, dude!”
Three cops and three EMTs all had to clean the shit out of their drawers.
Dude lived through the shooting with little more than a scar.
Holy crap! That is one lucky lady.
ROFLMAO @ Ambulance Driver! I bet.
We’re just tougher down here than they are in Philly.