By Micheal Chukwuebuka, Reporting
A college student and musician was injured by a stray bullet fired from the apartment next door into her bedroom early this week.
Stonix News gathered that 20-year-old Daria Tolokonnikova, who lives with her grandmother in downtown San Diego, was sitting on her bed studying Tuesday night when she was knocked out of bed and collapsed onto the floor, bleeding from the back of her head.
“I started blacking out. Everything immediately blacked out.
“I fell down on the ground for a second or two,” Tolokonnikova told our source, NBC News, San Diego on Thursday
According to footage from the scene where two holes are clearly visible, the round ripped through the drywall between the neighboring apartment and embedded in the opposite wall.
Fortunately, the bullet had only grazed Tolokonnikova’s scalp, which required stitches in hospital.
NBC News reported that the incident has left her too scared to sleep in her room.
“I am scared right now to go to my room. I am just very scared to go to my room. When I hear some noises, I get terrified,” she said.
In a police report shared with our source, NBC News in San Diego, the 9 mm bullet was allegedly fired by a 22-year-old Marine Corps, Cpl. Samuel C. Hernandez, who was arrested on suspicion of negligently discharging a firearm and later released on bail.
Hernandez, who is assigned to Marine Aircraft Group 41 based at MCAS Miramar, according to police report, was practicing his gun handling skills when he mistakenly pulled the trigger.
“I was practicing my dry firing of my pistol.
“It was a Glock 19 handgun that I own. I was being stupid and put my finger in the trigger and played stupid games.
“I was aiming at the wall,” Hernandez is quoted as saying in the report.
“I would understand that it could happen with anybody but not the guy who is professional, who is in the military and was playing with a gun,” Tolokonnikova’s grandmother told NBC News
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