KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Police say a woman’s tightly-woven hair weave saved her life.
Police were called to the Country View Market, 5802 Swope Parkway, around 11:30 p.m. Wednesday.
Arriving officers found the 20-year-old woman there. She told police she had pulled into the market and saw a man with whom she had recently ended an eight-month relation with inside a car there.
A second man came up to the woman’s window and told her that the ex-boyfriend still loved her, an incident report filed by the Kansas City Police Department said.
The woman told the second man “I don’t love him.”
At that time, the victim heard gunshots and saw her ex-boyfriend walking toward the back of her car firing a handgun.
The victim sped away in her vehicle as her back window shattered, police said.
She returned to the scene a moment later to witness both suspects leaving in their vehicle.
Officers found a bullet in the woman’s hair and said her tightly-woven weave likely stopped the bullet.
The victim was not harmed.
The ex-boyfriend and the second suspect were both taken into custody a short time later.
