(dramatic music)
- Because I was ignoring him.
I'm looking out the window everywhere else.
I was not paying him a bit of attention.
He says something and I realized, I said,
"Who is talking to me?"
As soon as I turned, it went off.
(gun thudding)
And I said, "You shot me?"
And I went to reach for the door and he said,
"Bitch, I'll shoot you again."
(Intense music) He raped me.
And that was disgusting to me.
I don't know if I passed out again
but the next time I came to he was taking pictures.
(camera clicking) (suspenseful music)
Yeah, I freak, I said,
"Oh no, I've really got to get out of this."
He turned the car and started driving off
and I remember getting the lock up.
I opened the door and as I opened the door,
he also pushed me out the door at the same time.
And I remember rolling in the street and laying there.
Then there was this voice was telling me,
"Get out the street. Get out of the street."
(suspenseful music)
(ambulance blaring)
The doctor said I had a collapse lung.
The bullet was still traveling in my system.
"We have to wait for it to settle
before we can do anything for you."
So I was in the hospital
and I think maybe four or five days before it settled.
So he said, "We're gonna take you to surgery.
We're gonna cut you open."
And he says, "I'm gonna take you in,
and I'm gonna get this bullet outta you."
I was like, "You gonna do it?"
He goes, "Yeah."
So we were on the table and he says,
"I'm gonna knock you out."
Then I was like, "Okay."
But I told him, "It's not easy to knock me out
'cause I have a strong system."
And he was like, "I got a cocktail for you."
(suspenseful music)
I'm on the table.
He gives me this cocktail,
and I wake up on the table and I go,
"You know that hurts, right?"
And he's like, "She's awake."
And I'm like, "Yeah."
And he's like, "Oh my God,
I can't stop what I'm doing and put her back under.
I just gonna finish up."
I can do this.
I done had a baby. I can do this.
He finished up, he says, "We got it. We got the bullet."
I just said, "Okay, father God, thank you, thank you."
I was still in the hospital room
and the detectives came in,
I think it was the day after surgery.
They brought in a sketch artist and they said,
"Can you describe him?"
And I gave 'em what I remembered.
(tense music)
He was short, black, he wasn't all that good looking.
He had a polo shirt and some khakis on.
Must say he was dressed decent.
Looked like a blue collar worker. No big deal.
(intense music)
(suspenseful music)
(tense music)
Look how many years it was?
I mean it was a 30 year gap almost
before they eventually caught somebody,
30 years to catch a black person
that shot another, or killed another black person.
30 years? Why is that?
'Cause they weren't really looking.
(tense music)
I don't know if I played a critical role or not.
I'm not gonna say that
because all I did was say what happened to me.
In the end, he was caught.
That's the best part. (somber music)