Woman shot while helping after Fayetteville wreck, another arrested for attempted murder: Sheriff
FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. (WNCN) — A woman was shot Tuesday afternoon after attempting to render aid in a car crash, according to the Cumberland County Sheriff’s Office.
Around 5:16 p.m. on Tuesday, deputies received a 911 call about a vehicle collision and a person being shot in the 4800 block of Matt Hair Road in Fayetteville. Deputies said once on scene they found a woman who had a gunshot wound to her face.
She was transported to a medical facility for treatment and is in stable condition.
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According to deputies, it was determined that the victim saw the vehicle collision and slowed down to render aid at the scene when she was struck by gunfire by a woman firing several shots into her vehicle.
Visha Franklin, 41, of Fayetteville, was arrested and charged with attempted first degree murder, assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill inflicting serious injury and four counts of discharging a weapon into occupied property.
Witnesses said Franklin was responsible for plowing through a fence on Tabor Church Road. They say she crossed someone’s front yard and hit a tree in a nearby church parking lot.
That’s when witnesses say an innocent bystander stopped to see if she could help. They say the suspect forced that bystander to drive her down Matt Haire Road.
“I heard three gunshots in a consecutive order and 30 seconds later I heard a fourth gunshot,” said a witness who doesn’t want to be identified.
That’s when witnesses say the suspect took off her clothes and laid down in the middle of the road.
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“She was waving the gun in the air with the slide back so you could tell it was empty. She was yelling just run me over,” the witness said.
Franklin was processed at the Cumberland County Center and was denied bond. Her first appearance was Wednesday at 2:30 p.m. at the Cumberland County Detention Center.
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