{"id":8735,"date":"2012-05-24T19:54:52","date_gmt":"2012-05-25T00:54:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=8735"},"modified":"2012-05-25T13:04:41","modified_gmt":"2012-05-25T18:04:41","slug":"shots-fired-at-family-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2012\/05\/shots-fired-at-family-car\/","title":{"rendered":"Shots Fired <BR> At Family Car"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/crime-scence-tape.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-8736\" title=\"crime scence tape\" src=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/crime-scence-tape.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a>A Lehigh Acres mother and her two children said they were startled by gunfire as the family drove home Wednesday night. A bullet hit the car right next to where a 16-year-old girl was riding in the backseat.<\/p>\n<p>That bullet is still lodged in the door of the Malivert family car.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Something in the door stopped the bullet. It stayed inside,&#8221; said mom, Marie Malivert.<\/p>\n<p>It hit only inches away from where 16-year-old Lovely Malivert was sitting in the backseat as she, her mom and 17 year-old brother, Etienne, drove home from the store.<\/p>\n<p>The Maliverts were heading down <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?rlz=1C1AVSJ_enUS460US460&amp;sugexp=chrome,mod%3D6&amp;q=21st+Street+West+Lehigh+Acres&amp;um=1&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;hq=&amp;hnear=0x88db721105de0bb3:0x37e410c0d2eb6dfe,21st+St+W,+Lehigh+Acres,+FL&amp;gl=us&amp;ei=tda-T-PCKMuugQfwtJ3ZCQ&amp;sa=X&amp;oi=geocode_result&amp;ct=title&amp;resnum=1&amp;ved=0CAoQ8gEwAA\">21st Street West Lehigh Acres<\/a> and as the family turned the corner, they heard a loud boom.\u00a0<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>They originally thought it was a rock, but then they got home and saw the bullet hole, they realized it was something much worse.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;After that, I got my phone and called 911 to call the police,&#8221; said Marie.<\/p>\n<p>She said after the boom, she saw two people run toward a nearby house. Deputies searched the area, but didn&#8217;t find the shooters.<\/p>\n<p>Luckily, the bullet didn&#8217;t pierce through the inner section of the door and the family is calling it a miracle.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m so lucky. I&#8217;ve got my son and my daughter with me and I say, \u2018God, thank you.&#8217; My son is OK and my daughter is OK,&#8221; Marie said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Lehigh Acres mother and her two children said they were startled by gunfire as the family drove home Wednesday night. A bullet hit the car right next to where&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8735"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8735\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}