Pregnant Colorado mom Kendall Heinold is shot through a window while sleeping next to her husband – after stray bullet barely missed her five-year-old daughter’s head
- Kendall Heinold, 27, a nursing home manager, was hit in the shoulder Thursday
- The pregnant Colorado mother said she and her husband woke up to gunfire
- A bullet also narrowly missed her young daughter who was sleeping in the next room
A pregnant Colorado woman was shot while sleeping next to her husband, while a stray bullet narrowly missed their five-year-old daughter's head.
Kendall Heinold, 27, a nursing home manager, cried as she recalled the night her family woke up to the sound of gunshots in their Aurora home Thursday morning.
“There was just a really loud noise and then a lot of pain on my left side,” she said Fox8.
'My husband was sleeping next to me and he got up and said, 'Did you hear that?' because it was so loud.
“And I just looked at him and thought, 'Honey, call 911, I just got shot.'”
Kendall Heinold, 27, a nursing home manager, cried as she recalled the night her family woke up to the sound of gunfire in their Colorado home Thursday morning
Heinold was shot as she slept next to her husband in their Aurora home early Thursday morning, with a stray bullet narrowly missing their five-year-old daughter.
Aurora police said they believe the bullet traveled hundreds of feet across a green space at the back of the family's home before punching through the walls.
Heinold was rushed to the hospital, where doctors discovered a bullet in her left shoulder. Because she was sixteen weeks pregnant, the medics left the shell in her rather than risk anesthetizing her for surgery.
The family later found a bullet hole in the bedroom of their children – aged five and six – showing the trajectory before it hit Heinold.
Aurora police said they believe the bullet traveled hundreds of feet across a green space at the back of the family's home before punching through the walls.
“The bullet missed my five-year-old daughter's head like a foot and went through their room, through my closet and into my pregnancy pillow,” Heinold said.
'Honestly, I think the pregnancy pillow saved my life because it went in through the side and my arm was on top of it.
“So the bullet changed direction when it hit my pillow.”
The Colorado mother broke down in tears as she said she was grateful her family survived the incident, which could have been much worse
The Colorado mother of two, who is expecting another child soon, said she believes her pregnancy pillow changed the trajectory of the bullet and saved her life
The bullet punched through the walls of their family home in Aurora, Colorado on Thursday
Heinold (right) was rushed to hospital, where doctors discovered a bullet in her left shoulder. Because she was sixteen weeks pregnant, the medics left the shell in her rather than risk anesthetizing her for surgery
Heinold broke down in tears as she said she was grateful her family survived the incident, which could have been much worse.
'I don't think I was targeted. “I don't think this was intentional, but I think people need to know that when a gun is shot, the bullet goes somewhere,” she said.
“That bullet traveled somewhere and eventually entered my house and hit me.
“So luckily it missed my kids and my baby, my dog and my husband, but ended up in my arm — which I think is the best-case scenario, but still scary.”