Born a Crime

other bullet went through the back
of her head, entering below the
skull at the top of her neck. It
missed the spinal cord by a hair,
missed the medulla oblongata, and
traveled through her head just
underneath the brain, missing every
major vein, artery, and nerve. With
the trajectory the bullet was on, it
was headed straight for her left eye
socket and would have blown out
her eye, but at the last second it
slowed down, hit her cheekbone
instead, shattered her cheekbone,
ricocheted off, and came out
through her left nostril. On the
gurney in the emergency room, the