Fulton Co. mother shot while sleeping, searching for answers, accountability
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On August 16, Anisa Herbert woke up to the sounds of gunshots as her boyfriend pulled her off their bed and into cover. “I felt a burning in my foot, and that’s when I said, ‘I’m hit,’” Herbert said. A bullet fired from outside her home had flown through the wall and hit her in the foot. “I never thought this would happen to me. Not in my bed while I sleep,” Herbert said “I could have not woken up that day.
” A police report found more than a dozen shell casings on a nearby street corner in Herbert’s Fairburn neighborhood. They also found bullet holes in multiple homes, most seemingly aimed at the master bedrooms on the second floor. “I haven’t felt safe since then because nobody knows. Who did it, where it came from nothing, there are just no answers to nothing,” Herbert said.