WINSTON-SALEM, NC (WFMY) - A release from Winston-Salem police said a woman was hit by a stray bullet at the Dixie Classic Fair on Monday.
Police say around 8:15 p.m., the victim, who asked we not identify her, was standing on the midway and felt something hit her in the chest. The victim, 22, then found a small bullet lying on the ground.
"All of a sudden I felt like a slap on the chest," she tells. "You could actually hear it on my chest."
She had a cut on her chest with some bleeding and was taken to the hospital as a precaution.
The initial investigation showed the bullet was shot off fairgrounds property.
Neither victim nor the officers at the fair heard any shots fired. Police couldn't find any other evidence that a gun was shot. There were no other reports of anyone else being hit and no other calls to police about a gunshot.
Police say it doesn't appear that the victim or any other patron at the fair were targeted.
"It’s one in a million," she explains. "I don’t understand how this happened."
Police ask anyone with more information to call CrimeStoppers at 336-727-2800 or message CrimeStoppers of Winston-Salem on Facebook.
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