INDIANAPOLIS — A shooting at an east side barber shop claimed the life of a man, injured two others and left countless people to cope with the trauma of what happened.
One of those people includes 68-year-old Glenda Woods, who was critically injured when she was hit by gunfire in both of her legs.
“It’s unbelievable. I can’t believe it happened,” said Woods. “I could be just sitting, and I look down and say, I got shot.”
According to the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department, officers responded to a report of a person shot at Champz Barber Shop on Friday, September 30. An innocent bystander who was a customer at the shop, 24-year-old Kevin Lamont Stigger, was pronounced dead at the scene.
Woods was critically injured and taken to the hospital, and a third victim, a man who fled from the barber shop in search of medical attention, was found at a Chase Bank across the street.
Barbers working at the shop told FOX59 they didn’t know the assailants, who came into the waiting area and began shooting at one another for reasons unknown.
Woods said she was with her sister enjoying an afternoon together. It was their first time at the shop when gunfire erupted, with bullets ricocheting off the walls, through windows, and the front door.
“After all of the bullets had stopped, it was quiet. I was scared,” said Woods.
Woods said she was in the chair one moment, and the next thing she knew, she was on the ground. She didn’t know she had been shot until her sister asked her if she was okay.
“I thought I had fell out of the chair and cut my leg. It was hot I was fanning it trying to cool it off,” Woods said.
Joshua Munn, another customer at Champz Barber Shop, said he had walked across the street to grab a bite to eat, when everything happened.
“I was across the street for not even a minute or two and I heard gunshots,” said Munn.
He said he watched as people fled the area and the store, but something told him he needed to help.
“Something came over me and said, you need to go in. I looked at the scene to make sure it was safe enough for me. I open the door and there was a guy that was laying there and then when I looked in, this lady here who was on the floor, and I had seen that she was bleeding out,” said Munn.
Munn works in the medical field and said he dedicates his life to helping others. Still, he never knew a trip to the barber shop on a Friday afternoon would be where his training came into play.
On Friday afternoon, FOX59 sat down with Woods, who shared her appreciation for a man she only knew as “Joshua.”
“I’d like to give a shout out to the guy who put the tourniquet on me in the barbershop. His name is Joshua. I don’t know his last name, but I met him on the phone a week after this happened,” said Woods. “I want to thank him and tell him that I am so grateful for him because if he hadn’t, I would’ve bled out. I lost so much blood.”
Woods said she couldn’t wait to invite him over for dinner or take him out for a nice meal.
What she didn’t know at the time of her interview was, we tracked down Munn, who jumped in the car without hesitation to come surprise the woman who he has been so concerned about. He walked through the door, bringing Woods to tears.
“They said if you hadn’t done that I would’ve bled out. That’s what they told me in the ambulance,” said Woods, who shared the bullet passed through both of her legs.
“They told me it was three, but it was only one. It was this leg came out this leg, went in this leg and came out this leg
According to Munn, it was a barber who handed him gloves and he got to work, applying a makeshift tourniquet and pressure to Woods’ legs, and keeping her stable until paramedics arrived. When EMS personnel got on scene, Munn said he applied an actual tourniquet with the assistance of medics.
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