CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Charlotte-Mecklenburg police are continuing their investigation into a shooting on Sunday that left an east Charlotte Neighborhood riddled with bullets.
Robert Potts said he was sitting in his front yard in the 1700 block of Purser Drive when bullets started flying.
"All of a sudden, cars pull up and guys just start shooting," Potts said.
Potts and his friends scattered. He said he jumped a fence trying to escape the gunshots and twisted his ankle.
His wife, Deborah, was standing on the other side of a window inside their home of 18 years when she was hit.
"It was like a force, just bam, hit me, I just knew my face was blown off. Something just said, 'You know you're dead,'" Deborah Potts said.
Her 17-year-old daughter dialed 911 while Deborah lay on the floor with a bullet fragment stuck in her jaw.
The Pottses told Channel 9 that the bullets kept coming. Three cars in their yard were hit. Two of them were damaged when bullets went straight through the hoods, fuses and fuel boxes.
Investigators said multiple rounds were fired from two rifles around 10:30 a.m. Sunday. Two people were shot, including Potts.
An officer, who was finishing a report nearby, rushed to the scene and confronted a man with a rifle, police said.
Police arrested Frank Thomas. Investigators said Thomas knew the other victim, who was also taken to the hospital.
The Pottses didn't know anyone who was involved.
The couple is grateful to be alive but upset that the shooters brought their fight into their neighborhood. Now they're stuck with injuries, broken windows and multiple insurance claims.
"It's a shame, see something like that, innocent people getting hurt for no reason," Robert Potts said.
Thomas is facing multiple charges, including assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill inflicting serious injury.
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