An 18-year-old woman was shot in the head in Chicago’s East Chatham neighborhood Tuesday, and her uncle says her weave may have helped save her life.
"[Doctors] assumed that when the bullet kind of went in, it bounced out because she had the weave in her hair," said Chantal Hammontree's uncle Randy Berry. Doctors have not confirmed that the weave played any role in repelling the bullet.
The teen was sitting in a car when shots were fired in its back window, hitting her in the head, police said.
"She was coming home, and when her girlfriend let her out of the car, the guy walked up and just shot her," Berry said.
