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Nov 3, 2008 9:37 pm US/Central
Woman Talks About Being Shot At TX Motor Speedway
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FORT WORTH (CBS 11 / TXA 21) ―
A NASCAR fan hit by a stray bullet inside her RV is recovering at Harris Methodist Hospital in Fort Worth.
"I thought I was hit by lightning, the explosion was so loud," Jill King said from her hospital bed. "I still can feel it all. I still can hear that explosion."
Jill was at the Texas Motor Speedway, with her family, when the bullet pierced the roof of RV and hit her right arm.
"I was standing in the right kitchen sink when this happened," King said pointing at her injury.
The stray bullet shattered several bones in Jill's right arm. "If I would have stepped two inches over the bullet would have hit my chest or head," she said.
The 61-year-old's family thinks the bullet came from a .50 caliber rifle and they insist it wasn't an accident.
"When I saw it I was like oh my gosh," explains King after she was shown the bullet.
Jill, who spent Monday surrounded by her family at the hospital, told CBS 11 News she's grateful for many miracles that day. "You just take a breath and you are thankful," King said. "It's a miracle; it really is… that I'm alive and that I have my arm."
Jill's husband, Mel Moss, says he's also grateful, but now has a mission. "I spent all day searching for answers," he said.
Mel Moss tells CBS 11 News he'll be looking for witnesses to the incident and hopes to find the person responsible for the shooting. He estimates the gun was fired by someone two or three miles away.
Gun experts say the military uses the weapon to take down aircraft, not people, and stands 5-feet tall. It weighs 40 pounds.
"The person needs to be found," he said. "That person needs to be found - especially a person with a .50 caliber weapon that doesn't know how to use it."
Moss is offering a $3,000 reward for any information leading to an arrest. He also plans on launching a Web site to find the shooter and for others to join him in an effort to ban the sale of .50 caliber weapons to consumers.
As of Monday evening, Fort Worth police say they have no suspects in the case.
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