INDIANAPOLIS -- A woman shot in the leg by a stray bullet in downtown Indianapolis over the weekend is not letting the violence get to her, and will be back to her usual routine this week.
Just before midnight Saturday, Tonesha Vaught was walking to pick up her car from a nearby garage near the intersection of Washington and Illinois streets. She saw a man with two small girls nearby.
When the bullets started flying, the man was ducking down behind the trunk of his car, hiding with his two girls.
"He was telling me to stay down - to stay calm,"
Vaught was still trying to figure out what happened.
"It knocked me down to the ground and I was holding my wound until the ambulance got there," she said. "I was still in denial about getting shot until they got there and lifted my leg up and I saw the blood."
Vaught said the actual shooter was behind her, so she never got a good look.
She was hit in the calf, shattering part of her kneecap and getting stuck in her knee. She went into surgery on Sunday. Doctors removed the bullet with no complications. It will be given to investigators.
"Things happen but you can't let that stop you," Vaught said.
From her hospital bed, Vaught hit the books, getting ready for the week.
"I will be in class Tuesday to take this important test for massage therapy," she said.
No arrests have been made.
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