A 16-year-old girl who was shot by a man who wanted her hoverboard spoke only with Channel 2 Action News Sunday afternoon.
Jazzmyne Hester was leaving a convenience store Saturday around 6 p.m. and didn’t realize someone was following her home.
Hester was talking to her friends and didn’t notice the gunman until he approached her from behind at the front door of her apartment complex.
“The dude had the gun to one of my friends’ head and was like, ‘Give me the hoverboard. Give me the hoverboard.’ And my friend threw it at him and pushed him out of the way and closed the door, and he was like shooting,” Hester said.
The bullet went through the door and hit Hester in the lower back.
“I felt the blood dripping and I was like, ‘OMG! I been shot! I been shot,’” Hester said. “It hurt. It felt like 1,000 red ants just biting you in that one little spot.”
Her friends kept pressure on the wound until paramedics arrived.
While Hester was being transported to Grady Memorial Hospital, she says she wasn’t worried about herself.
Hester was thinking about her family members who could have been killed.
“I was really worried about my niece, because she was standing right there,” Hester said. “The bullet went just past her head. So she could’ve been shot, too.”
Hester gave police a description of the man who shot her.
Police told Channel 2’s Tyisha Fernandes they have some good leads on this shooting.
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