A 34-year-old woman is unhurt after a stray bullet from outside Busch Stadium went inside and hit her in the arm.
Thankfully the bullet just grazed her arm and the extent was an abrasion but it could’ve been much worse. Especially since the reports of gunfire happened less than a mile outside the stadium and the bullet went into a stadium with thousands of people.
While the woman didn’t want to talk to the media at this point, Todd Porter and his son was sitting nearby, saw what happened and filled in some of the details to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
She suddenly said, “Wow, I think I’ve been shot,” just as the eighth inning was coming to a close, Porter said.
“We thought she was joking, but everybody turned around and she showed me the blood coming down from her elbow,” Porter said. “It looked real purple and red and it looked like there was a hole in her jacket.”
The man who was sitting with the victim then said, “We need security, she’s been shot,” Porter recalled.
“She was in shock,” Porter said. “We were all in shock. They were just sitting there like any other couple, laughing and giggling, and a little bit later is when that happened.”
Porter said he and his son were sitting in seats 7, 8 or 9 in Section 141 when it happened, and “could have thrown a ball and hit first base.” His son sat in front of the victim.
“It could very easily have hit him,” Porter said.
“I told my son, ‘Let’s get up out of here before someone else gets to shooting,’” Porter said.
That has to be a scary situation. It’s one thing to be in a dangerous situation with guns and something happens, it’s another when you’re trying to watch a baseball game and a bullet out of nowhere hits you.
The woman hit reportedly retained a lawyer, that’s why she didn’t talk to the media. A similar situation happened in 2000 where a woman was hit from a bullet outside of Kaufmann Stadium at a Kansas City Royals game. She sued and settled with the Royals for an undisclosed amount.
