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Father lucky to be alive after stray bullet hits neck
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — It was a scary situation in Frayser, as a man survived a stray bullet to the neck over the weekend.
Cornelius Seals, a father of four, says he walked out and thought he heard fireworks, when instead it was gunfire.
'It was just a regular day,' he said. 'My brother got his kids out here, so they just walking around and I hear, like, fireworks and my instincts was like, where did they get fireworks from?'
Police responded to the shooting on Donna Drive near Burnham Avenue just after 8 p.m. on Saturday.
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Surveillance footage shows his kids were outside as well, so Seals' first instinct as a father was to protect his kids as he was later rushed to the hospital by a neighbor.
'And you run outside and you end up getting shot in the neck, and they shooting for real. Where all the kids at?' Seals said.
Seals, who moved from Denver a few years ago says Frayser has been getting too violent recently, with 20 reported homicides this year alone, and says he plans to move away.
'I have to for the safety of my family. I don't want to move but I have to, I can't take any more shootouts,' Seals said. 'I gotta get far away.'
Data says there have been 20 homicides in Frayser this year
The bullet is still in Seals' neck, as doctor's say it was too close to his spine to remove it.
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