Last week, an afternoon’s minor fender bender turned violent when two men brought out the guns on a busy stretch of Westheimer Road.
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The shootout occurred on Westheimer and Kirkwood, and Hilda Nkepah, who was shopping in the area with her mother, was grazed by a bullet.
“It’s just been emotionally difficult to deal with and psychologically difficult to deal with,” Nkepah told abc13 Eyewitness News. “We were just driving and I heard gunshots. I told my mom ‘oh my god, gunshots, gunshots. let’s hide.’ Before I knew it, I was shot.”
The woman suffered a wound to her cheek, which split her ear, and glass from a broken windshield lodged in her eye. A good Samaritan who happened to be an EMT stopped to help her, and Nkepah later underwent surgery.
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While the day still haunts her, the Nkepah is grateful for the actions of others, and that her injuries weren’t more serious.
“I think I’m blessed because I know it could have been worse,” she said
According to abc13, no official arrests of the men involved in the gun fight have been made yet.
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