21-year-old NC mother shot while feeding baby, opens fire on intruders

in #family6 years ago

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Semantha Bunce, 21, of Charlotte, North Carolina was feeding her 4-month-old son when two gun wielding intruders broke into her home.

Bunce, mother of three, was home with two of her children on the morning of Nov. 3 when two men kicked down her front door and opened fire. Bunce, a combat medic with the National Guard, was shot at least twice. Apparently leaving Bunce for dead the intruders began to make their way through the home. Wounded and bleeding Bunce secured her children, include a 4-month-old, by taking them upstairs. During this time Bunce was able to access her husband's hand gun. The intruders and Bunce met in the stairwell, and a gunfight ensued. Multiple shots were fired by both parties.

According to wsoctv.com Paul Bunce, Semantha's husband, said, “I think it was a shock to the intruders just as much as it was to her."

The intruders fled the scene after Bunce opened fire. Bunce was then rushed to Carolinas Medical Center with critical injuries.

It is unknown if any of Bunce's bullets made contact the intruders. Nor, at this time, are the identities of the intruders known.

Check Henson, a Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department Captain said, "This investigation is going full force ahead. They're working it very, very hard and I'm very confident that we'll have an arrest in it at some point."

A donation account has been created in Bunce's name to help their family during this time. Click here if interested in donating.

Article originally published in my now discontinued column on Examiner.com on November 6, 2015.

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