A stray bullet nearly hit a baby when it went past through the wall of a house in the middle of the night at Knox County, Tennessee on Sunday. The bullet went straight to a baby's crib missing baby Brynn by only a few inches.
Brynn, a five-month-old baby was sleeping in her chipped wood-covered crib when her parents Sarina and Brian Manifold heard gunshots in their daughter's nursery. The couple immediately ran into the room and found the crib littered with wood fragments. "Fear, terror, grateful that she's OK... As soon as I hung up the phone with 911, I think that's when it hit me, and I just started hugging her and sobbing," Sarina Manifold said in an interview, according to Little Things.
The bullets were believed to be shot a few blocks away from the Manifold's residence which entered through the side of their house, then baby Brynn's crib headboard, through the bedroom wall lodging to their guestroom wall. Knox county police are looking at the possibility of at least 10 rounds being fired that night for nine shell casings have also been recovered near the area.
The couple shared their experience as an appeal to gun owners and a reminder to other parents as well. "People who choose to have weapons and want to go out and shoot them, that they [need to] know that bullets do land somewhere. And they landed in our house. And that scares me," Sarina said, AOL News reported.
Brian and Sarina strongly believe that it was their daughter's grandparents who have kept their child safe in the midst of her very vulnerable situation. Both the couple's parents passed away just recently. The decided to move baby Brynn into her new crib inside the parents' room for the next six weeks.
