Shooting victim says accused carjacker ‘tried to kill me’ outside Fort Worth store
One of two women who a man allegedly shot this week says that when she saw his gun, she did not believe it was real.
“It looked like a toy gun,” said Donna Glady, who survived being shot in the head Tuesday morning. “Then I heard pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, five times.”
Glady told the Star-Telegram she was sitting in her vehicle in the 900 block of East Berry Street in Fort Worth when she heard the gunfire outside. She ducked and covered her head with her arms while speeding away to avoid further injury.
Glady drove to the Miller Avenue Government Center, where she knew there would be police officers who could help her. Glady was instructed by an officer to call 911, she said.
“I was in shock when it first happened,” Glady said. “I told police that I knew I had to get somewhere where I could be safe.”
Police and paramedics had already been in the area about five hours earlier on Tuesday for another shooting call. A 57-year-old woman told police that a man shot her in the shoulder while she was at a McDonald’s drive-through when she refused to give up her car, according to a police report.
The woman who was shot earlier Tuesday was taken to a hospital where she was treated and is expected to recover.
Apparently, police were still investigating that shooting, which occurred less than a tenth of a mile away, while paramedics pried lose a small-caliber bullet that had lodged in Glady’s scalp.
It was originally reported that Glady had been shot in the arm, and there were scars on her arm apparently from glass fragments that hit her when her vehicle window was shattered by gunfire.
Glady said the man who was eventually arrested and accused in both shootings seemed suspicious when she initially saw him outside a store.
Police booked Jeremiah Stevenson, 39, of Fort Worth, into jail shortly before 3 p.m. Tuesday, according to police arrest records. Stevenson faces two counts of aggravated robbery
Out of habit, Glady said, she locked her car door before walking into the store to buy something to drink. And then, she said, she saw Stevenson come inside the store.
“I saw him coming behind me,” Glady said. “I said good morning because I always say good morning to everyone, but he said nothing.”
Glady climbed inside her vehicle, looked up and then saw her assailant staring at her through her passenger side window. The man never said a word, just fired multiple times through the passenger window and once through her windshield, Glady said.
Things could have been much worse, she said. Had she not ducked, or had the bullet not been slowed down by her windows, she might have been shot in the face.
“It was pretty bizarre,” she said. “Not many people get shot in the head and live to tell about it.”
Stevenson is known to Tarrant County authorities and has multiple misdemeanor convictions, including one for assault and another two for theft in 2003, according to court records.
The Tarrant County District Clerk’s file also shows two state jail felony convictions for theft and evading arrest in 2003 and 2004, and one felony conviction for aggravated robbery with a deadly weapon for Stevenson in 2006.
Prosecutors dismissed five cases Stevenson was accused of in 2005 and 2006 and a Tarrant County grand jury declined to pursue a felony theft case brought against him in 2005, court records show.
“He definitely tried to get in my car,” Glady said. “He may have tried to get in my car while I was in the store. He saw me go into the store and he followed me out of the store. He tried to kill me.”
