"It was a sunny Friday in August when Rachel Williams arrived at the hair salon where she worked in Newport, Wales. As she was shuffling clients around, she remembers looking at the shop door or window and thinking something was obscuring the sunlight. She quickly recognised her ex-husband Darren's 6ft 7in frame, and instinctively ran towards him as he pulled a sawn-off shotgun out of his black duffel bag."
"He stood four feet away from me, told me he loved me, and pulled the trigger. My left leg took the first shot and I can remember it wasn't a pain, it was a force. Rachel could smell the gunpowder and looked down at her jeans where there was a gaping hole. I remember looking and thinking, Oh my God, he's shot me.' And then I felt a blast to the right of me, and that clearly missed my head."
"She grabbed the gun with supernatural strength, and clung on as he stamped all over her head and punched her back. My left ear had to be slit seven times to get rid of a huge cauliflower ear. I had a bruise from a black eye that travelled all the way down my neck and landed on my shoulder and collarbone. He battered me and then he was gone."
Rachel Williams arrived at her Newport hair salon on a sunny Friday in August and noticed something obscuring the sunlight at the door. Her ex-husband Darren, a 6ft 7in man, entered carrying a sawn-off shotgun. She ran toward him, struggled for the weapon and fell beside a woman in her 90s named Connie. Darren shot her, the first round shattering her shin and knee; another blast narrowly missed her head. She grabbed the gun as he stamped on her and struck her repeatedly. Emergency responders treated a shattered leg, severe ear damage and multiple bruises. Police later found Darren dead by suicide in nearby woodland, and Williams experienced relief amid the trauma.
Read at www.theguardian.com
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