Markeytia said she had just broken up with her boyfriend before he turned a gun on her in front of her 11-year-old and 4-year-old children.
mother of two is speaking out after she says she was shot multiple times, and then her apartment was set on fire.Markeytia Richmond spent nine days in the hospital after being shot three times inside her apartment onPolice said the incident happened after a verbal altercation between Richmond and her partner.
Richmond said she had just broken up with her boyfriend before he turned a gun on her in front of her 11-year-old and 4-year-old children. She says she was shot in the neck, and the bullet pierced a main artery — which placed her in critical condition at the time. Neighbors said surveillance footage showed a man breaking into the apartment right before the blaze.
"We found the crow bar, the hammer was outside of the front door, and the crow bar was in the back," one neighbor said.The 28-year-old showed FOX 32 an order of protection she filed against the boyfriend in March 2022. She will now have to undergo physical and occupational therapy after having a stroke while in the hospital.Richmond says her biggest fear is that the offender is still at large, and that he may return.that I have read and agree
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