Stray Bullet Stopped By Scarves In Brockton Home

BROCKTON (CBS) – A stray bullet ripped through the walls of a Brockton home, just missing a woman's head. She says the bullet was stopped by her scarves.

Sebastiana Ribeiro kept her children home on Halloween because she was concerned for their well-being, she never imagined that just hours later the house itself would become a target.

"I don't know if I want to stay here, just sell the house," Ribeiro says.

The Brockton woman was up late watching television in her bedroom early Sunday morning.

"I heard this shot," she says. "When I heard it, I thought it had just hit the wall, so I jumped from the bed."

She ran to check on her mother in the neighboring room.

But the mother and daughter didn't make that discovery until hours later, when daylight revealed a bullet entered the second floor, traveled through one room, inches behind the headboard and passed into the next.

"I was right there in the bed," she said.

It stopped just feet from Sebastiana, in a scarf.

"It went through all of this, but this one was the last one. They found the bullet inside of this," she says holding the scarf.

Police believe she was the unintentional victim of a drive-by shooting, a harsh reality that has more than rattled the single mother of three.

"I work hard to have my own house and you can't even stay in your own house and feel safe. If I was renting, I would be out of here today. But my own house. What am I going to do? I have to be here."

Brockton Police say there were multiple drive-by shootings in the city this weekend. No arrests have been made.

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