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Default Mom of 3 in hospital after being shot multiple times in attack, chase

MONTGOMERY, AL (WSFA) -
A Montgomery woman is recovering after a horrifying ordeal that
ended with her crashing on the side of the interstate with
gunshot wounds as she fled in fear from a gunman.

Alicia Martin was shot several times Monday and remains in the
hospital as police continue their investigation into the
incident.

Her son, Gavin Martin, says his mother makes deliveries to local
stores and when she gets done with work, she often drives around
different Montgomery neighborhoods to pray.

“My mother is a strong believer in God, and she usually rides
around bad neighborhoods to pray just in general,” he said.

On Monday afternoon, she decided to stop on Crescent Road in the
Ridgecrest neighborhood on the city’s west side. A stranger
walked up to her car and started talking to her.

As background, Gavin says his 16-year-old brother “got into it
with a few people." He believes the tension made his family
members targets.

When the man asked Alicia if she was the teen’s mother, she said
yes.

“Then this dude that's standing at her car just decides to start
shooting into her window at her,” Gavin said.

In the barrage of bullets, she put her arm up in a defensive
move to protect her head and face and tried to get her car
turned on to get away. She was struck in the forearm, shattering
the bones in her arm.

She pulled out of Crescent Road and made her way onto the nearby
ramp for the interstate. Her son says she was trying to get to
the hospital with her injured arm, but quickly realized she was
not out of harm’s way.

“These dudes who shot at my mother decided to hop in the car and
chase her down. She was already shot and it was raining during a
bad storm,” Gavin said. “Picture my mom running away from men
who she didn't even know who decided to shoot at her over the
spite of a young boy.”

He's is not sure how many people were in the car that was
following his mother, and endangering many other people on the
interstate.

Alicia’s back windshield was shot out and she was hit in the
thumb, shoulder and back in the chase, in addition to her
forearm wounds. Relatives say she was so scared, she ultimately
laid down to avoid being shot again, losing control of her car
on Interstate 85 North.

She struck two other cars and a guardrail before running off the
roadway. No other drivers were injured, and Alicia Martin was
rushed to the hospital.

The mother of three had surgery on her arm, and remains in a
great deal of pain from her injuries. She is worried about her
family’s safety, according to her children. They're outraged
someone came after her in such a vicious way, but they're
relieved she was able to escape with her life. They ask anyone
with information to come forward.

“Just the fact that these people wanted my mother dead, it's
horrible,” Gavin said. “It was heartbreaking to see my mother on
that table with all those tubes through her and to know that
somebody did that to her. You would never guess in a million
years that anything like this would ever happen to your mother.
It's hard for us and we just want the person to be locked up.”

Betty Brown owns the home on the corner of Crescent Road and
Edgemont Avenue. Her son and daughter-in-law live there, but
Brown has been visiting from Florida. She was upset when she
heard about the shooting involving Alicia Martin.

“I was here when they were doing all of that shooting the other
night. A few days before that, a house across the street got
shot, had the windows shot out,” she said. “They shoot like
crazy down Crescent and all around here. I'm concerned because
there's so much violence on this street and so much drugs down
in that area. I'm very worried.”

Gavin Brown says that’s why his mother went to that neighborhood
when she got finished with work on Monday.

“That's one of the reasons she was over here praying,” he said.
“She could have been killed.”

A spokesperson for the Montgomery Department of Public Safety
indicated that MPD’s investigation “is continuing.” No other
details have been released and no arrests have been made.

http://www.tucsonnewsnow.com/story/3...3-in-hospital-
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