A woman named Nikeya Shumake was shot fourteen times by her ex-boyfriend Askia Strong and she survived it. The footage of the shooting has gone viral with a bunch of reactions.
The Daily Mail got the details;
A mother-of-three was shot at least 14 times by her ex-boyfriend in front of their children, who stepped in to keep their dad from killing her. Nikeya Shumake, 32, of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, was shot more than a dozen times on July 23 after her ex-boyfriend Askia Strong, also 32, chased her down after an alleged argument.
Strong is still on the run and is suspected of hiding out with family in Chicago, Illinois, or Indiana, and is wanted for attempted murder.
The couple had been together for 17 years and share three children – Jermiyah, 12, Askia Jr., five, and Zamiyah, two. In surveillance footage, Strong can be seen following the mother closely before she falls onto the ground as her legs buckle underneath her.
She can be seen rolling on the ground as he continuously fires at her in the grainy footage.
‘He just kept shooting and I fell to the ground, and laid there and let him keep shooting until he was done,’ she told CBS 58. ‘I would like the whole video to be played so people can understand from my point of view and from my kids’ point of view.’
Seconds later, her children can be seen running toward her. One of them appears to throw something at their father, while the others scream and jump around, begging their father to stop. ‘My oldest, she screamed out in anger. She just wanted it to stop,’ Shumake said through thick emotion.
He appears to run away before coming back and shooting Shumake several more times.
After he made his getaway, the mother seemingly gets up as if she wasn’t even shot. After she was able to ‘focus’ her eyes, she managed to ‘get up a little bit.’ ‘Then I was like: “Oh I can stand up,” so I just stood up all the way.’ she told the outlet.
She called herself a ‘hero’ for her ability to get off the ground and said it was ‘victory for me to from that point on.’
Shumake would go over to her neighbor’s car and open the door, pushing her laundry out of the way, and asking her to ‘please, just take me’ to the hospital. The neighbor, Shumake claims, watched the entire gruesome attack happen. The pair had just broken up a few days prior to the shooting and Shumake said her children watched the criminal – who has been in and out of jail – abuse her for several years.
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