Mariah Dixon spoke to CBS 2's Charlie De Mar from her hospital bed.
Dixon did not think she would survive after she was shot in a parking lot near Route 83 and Honeysuckle Rose Lane during a Juneteenth celebration early Sunday morning."I thought that I was going to die," Dixon said."I got shot once, and when the bullets kept ringing and I kept hearing gunshots, I was just basically waiting to get shot again. That's how I felt."
"When I got shot, the bullet kind of went through my knee - and it lodged up in my femur bone," Dixon said. "Immediately, everybody started running – and, you know, pushing past me and shoving me," Dixon said."I thought that there was really nowhere for me to go."In the chaos moments after the shooting, and with a bullet in her leg, Dixon took cover under a car.
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