CHARLOTTE (QUEEN CITY NEWS) — A bullet hit a Charlotte woman after she says celebratory New Year’s Eve gunshots hit her roof and landed in her bedroom.
“I hear pop and I yell out, “I think I’ve been shot!” says Carlitha Foxworth-Dulin.
It wasn’t how she expected her New Year’s Eve night to go. She was lying in bed Tuesday night reading a book and listening to neighbors celebrate the coming year with fireworks.
But someone decided to celebrate another way.
“I screamed that out and got down off of my bed. My daughter came in the room. She was like “Mom, are you okay?” And I said “I think I’ve been shot. Go, go get daddy. He’d looked up and he saw he was able to see where the bullet actually came in. So then I started to pull this blanket down off of the bed as I began to pull it down sure enough, right on the carpet next to me, a bullet fell on the floor,” she said.
When she called the authorities, they told her the same thing had happened to another house in Charlotte. She says the roof repair company found at least one other bullet on the roof but only one made its way into the home.
The four-year Army veteran suffers from PTSD from a tour in Saudi Arabia. The incident has her even more traumatized.
“It was a little nerve-wracking because the next day when we went to work, one of my coworkers was removing some of her holiday decorations and a balloon pop and it immediately just sent me there. Triggers are triggers. And this was one of them. Just sent like… an immediate shock,” Foxworth-Dulin said.
Now, she has a message for the community.
“Everything is affected by gravity. You put a bullet in the air where there’s 90 degrees, 70 degrees, it’s going to come down somewhere. Go to a shooting range,” she said.
Foxworth-Dulin wasn’t seriously injured and didn’t need to go to a hospital.
She also filed a police report. QCN reached out to Charlotte Mecklenburg Police for the report on Friday evening, they have not responded at the time of this article.
