A pregnant Colorado woman was sleeping in her bed when she was hit by a stray bullet that narrowly missed her two young children.
Kendall Heinold was at her home in Aurora early Thursday morning when she heard gunshots and felt a sharp pain in her left side.
“My husband was sleeping next to me and he got up and said, ‘Did you hear that?’ Because he was so loud, I looked at him and said, ‘Honey, call 911, I just got shot,’” Heinold told KDVR.
The 27-year-old was rushed to the hospital, where doctors found the bullet lodged in her shoulder.
However, because she is 16 weeks pregnant, doctors decided to leave the bullet in rather than put her under anesthesia for the surgery.
Aurora Police Department investigators said the bullet may have hit Heinold after traveling hundreds of feet over a greenbelt behind his family’s home, according to KDVR.
Kendall Heinold, 27, was shot in the shoulder while sleeping in her bed at her home in Aurora, Colorado. FOX 31 The bullet almost hit his two children, who were sleeping in another room. FOX 31
Heinold and her husband later found a bullet hole in the house, just inches from where their children, ages 5 and 6, were sleeping. The bullet went through the children’s room first, she said.
“The bullet missed my 5-year-old daughter’s head by about a foot and went through her room, my closet and my pregnancy pillow,” Heinold told the outlet.
She said she believes the pregnancy pillow “is what saved my life” because it changed the trajectory of the bullet before it hit her.
Doctors decided to leave the bullet in for now because Heinold is 16 weeks pregnant. FOX 31 Heinold and her husband later found a bullet hole just inches from where her children, ages 5 and 6, were sleeping. The bullet went through the children’s room first, she said. FOX 31 A bullet hole in a wall of the family home just inches from a pillow. FOX 31
Security footage from a neighbor’s home recorded at least eight gunshots that morning.
“I don’t think it was targeted, I don’t think it was intentional, but I think people need to know that when a gun is fired, the bullet goes somewhere,” Heinold said.
“Luckily it missed my kids, my baby, my dog and my husband, but it ended up in my arm, which I think is the best case scenario considering it’s still scary.”
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