Macon store clerk walks after taking bullet to the head

Doris Day will be walking around for a few days with a bullet in her head, and she didn’t seem too upset about it.

“I was lucky,” Day said. “God was looking out for me.”

She made the comments Saturday evening, with a fresh bandage on her forehead, as she stood in the place where the shooting happened just hours earlier.

She works at Kris’s Corner Shop on Millerfield Road in Macon and had come there Saturday to speak with her boss. She was leaving when she heard gunshots and saw people running toward the store from a car wash next door.

A fight had apparently started there between about a dozen people, Day said, and a chase ensued toward the store.

“I was thinking I needed to get back inside to get behind the bulletproof glass,” she said.

That’s when she was struck. The bullet apparently bounced off the building and lodged on the surface of her forehead. She was taken to the emergency room, where doctors concluded it would be better to wait 10 days before trying to remove the bullet.

Day said it didn’t penetrate her skull and she expects to be fine.

She said no one else was injured.

Macon police were at the scene after the shooting collecting evidence around the store and the car wash. They declined to talk about what happened except to say that a shooting had occurred and it involved a number of people.

Questions to the police department were referred to spokeswoman Jami Gaudet but she did not return phone calls.

To contact writer Wayne Crenshaw, call 256-9725.

This story was originally published June 9, 2012 at 8:04 PM with the headline "Macon store clerk walks after taking bullet to the head."