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Oct 26, 2009 9:16 pm US/Central
Bullet Grazes Driver's Head After Highway Shooting
FORT WORTH (CBS 11 / TXA 21) ―
An overnight highway shooting in Fort Worth left a Bedford driver with two bullet holes in his windshield, a gash in his scalp and a new found look on life.
The shooting happened along Highway 121 between Beach and Riverside around 11:30 Sunday night.
Police think the incident may have started as a "highway altercation".
Corey Lamb, the driver who was shot at, says it seemed like the other driver wanted to race. The 36-year-old man said he didn't.
Lamb said he was on his way to pick up a female friend when a champagne-colored pickup pulled up beside him. Lamb said he slowed down, but as he exited on Riverside the pickup pulled ahead.
As Lamb exited the highway two bullets hit the windshield of his borrowed 2005 green Suzuki four-door vehicle. One of those shots went through the driver's side glass. "I didn't think nothing else of it until I was getting off the highway and they come flying beside me and then I heard that bang go off. First thing I thought of was a fire cracker," Lamb recalled.
While only two bullets hit the car Lamb said it sounded like more. "If I'd have been sitting here, driving straight up, it would've hit me straight in the face," Lamb said of the bullets. "I was leaning like this, so it went off the side of my head. So it was a blessing I didn't get killed."
Lamb considers himself more than lucky and says he's blessed to have escaped the incident relatively unharmed.
Lamb said he started going to church six months ago. "The Lord was looking over me when this happened, 'cause I've really tried to change my life around and do things differently."
Discouraged and unable to find a steady job, Lamb admits he's missed the past three Sunday', but says what happened changes everything. "[I] definitely will be in church Sunday," he said, laughing.
According to Lamb, the other driver was a white male between 45 and 50 years old. He says there were also two passengers in the truck.
Police are still looking for the vehicle, but think the shooting was random and wasn't gang related.
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