DETROIT – She's lived in her east side Detroit home for more than 30 years near 7 Mile Road and Gratiot Avenue.
At about 4 a.m. Thursday, someone fired more than 20 rounds from a high-powered gun into the 84-year-old woman's home. Bullets flew through the front windows and lodged in the back of the house.
She doesn't want her identity revealed and, after what she's been through, who can blame her?
"It sounded like one great big bomb went off," she said.
When she ran to see what had happened there was so much smoke and dust in the air she thought her house was on fire. It wasn't, but the bullet holes which are all over the place did so much damage.
"The entertainment center was shattered, the windows are shattered, there are holes in the top of the walls, in the closet, the front door and porch light is shot out and the chandelier," she said.
She thinks this has to be a case of mistaken identity. After all, why would anybody try to kill an elderly woman who spends her days either at the senior center or grocery shopping?
She's watched as her neighborhood has declined over the past 30 years but doesn't have the resources to pick up and move, or the resources to repair all the damage.
Detroit police have been here with their crime scene techs, but so far neighbors say they didn't see anything.