A 23-year-old Phoenix woman was the victim of an apparent drive-by shooting incident when she was fatally struck by a stray bullet while ordering food from a food truck, AZFamily reported. According to the police, the tragic incident took place in the early hours of Sunday morning. The victim, identified as Destiny McClain, was ordering food from a food truck near 17th Street and McDowell Road when unknown suspects allegedly opened fire in a vehicle near that location. McClain suffered a gunshot wound and later succumbed to her injuries in a hospital. “Bullets flew, they were like phew, flew right through you, literally just a few meters from us,” Rafael Martinez, a witness to the shooting, told KPNX. Martinez added that the incident happened when he and his friends were walking out of a nightclub. And they tried to help McClain when they realized she had been hit. “You look them in the eye and they don’t know what’s going on. They look up in the air and I tell her, ‘You will be fine, you will make it.’ And then she didn’t make it, ”Martinez recalls. McClain’s mother, Brenda Gilliam-Miller, also told the news agency that her daughter was out to cheer up a friend who was divorcing when the incident happened. “She’s losing her life on a taco truck. It doesn’t make sense to me, ”said Gilliam-Miller. The grieving mother also said her daughter barely went out and this was actually her second outing in a year. “I don’t know how to feel, I don’t know what to think. It just doesn’t make sense to me, ”she said, adding that she would like everyone responsible for her daughter’s death to face the full weight of the law. “I don’t want my baby to be a statistic. I want people to know that it was my child and didn’t deserve it, ”said Gilliam-Miller. “She was kind, she loved everyone. She was very caring. ”Meanwhile, investigators have yet to identify the perpetrator and also determine the reason for the shooting.
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