Stray Bullet Injures Sleeping Woman, 64, In West Garfield Park Home
(CBS) -- A Chicago woman's decision to change her sleep pattern just may have saved her life.
The 64-year old retiree was shot while asleep in bed by a stray bullet.
CBS-2's Suzanne Le Mignot spoke to family members who say they're grateful she's alive.
Rachel Harvey looks in disbelief at the bullet hole in the front window of her mother's house.
"It went straight through both and through the blinds, through the plastic," she says. "My God!"
Harvey's mother, Patricia Griffin, was shot in a leg while sleeping in her Garfield Park home Saturday morning. She was rushed by ambulance, to Mt. Sinai.
"Thank God that her head was at the other end, because the phone call could have went a whole different way," Harvey says. "I'm just grateful."
Griffin's family says the 64-year-old former lunchroom aide, retired last year from Michele Clark Magnet High School after working for CPS for 45 years. At least five shots were fired, some of them shattering the back window of an SUV.
"Just cut it out," Harvey says. "I mean, that's all I can say and I hope they get caught."
Chicago police say the shooting remains under investigation.