The 70-year-old Brooklyn grandmother hit by a stray bullet while walking home from the grocery store says the Big Apple is seeing “some scary times” as shootings run rampant.
“We’re living in some scary times,” retired 8th-grade teacher Marilyn Hunte told The Post on Wednesday. “There’s just too many guns out there and people with anger issues — mental problems and anger issues.”
Hunte was hit in the leg as she pushed a shopping cart full of groceries after leaving Foodtown around 2 p.m. in Bedford-Stuyvesant on Monday.
“It’s scary,” she said. “If someone had to get shot, I’d rather it be me than a child because I thought of where the bullet hit me — had that been a child, the child would’ve been dead.”
The tough-as-nails granny boasted how she literally stood her ground after getting shot.
Stray shooting victim Marilyn Hunte, 70.
Hunte was struck while pushing groceries after leaving Foodtown in Bedford-Stuyvesant on Monday. Peter Gerber“I didn’t fall at all,” she said. “I didn’t black out or lose consciousness at all. I knew that I was shot right away because I heard the gunshot sound and felt a slap to the side of my leg.
“I touched it and saw the blood. That was confirmation,” Hunte said.
Doctors left the bullet in her leg, telling Hunte “it would do more harm if they took it out,” she said.
“They cleaned it out with iodine, which was the most painful part,” she added. “It felt like liquid fire. It was horrible. They put a few staples to close it and wrapped it in a bandage.”
Hunte conceded that she “was shocked” when the slug slammed into her leg.
She said she’s lived in New York City her entire life and moved to Brooklyn at 19. Since, she’s lived in Flatbush and Bed-Stuy. She also has a son, who lives in Virginia Beach, and a grandchild.
Hunte said she voted for Mayor Eric Adams and noted he’s got his hands full with crime.
“Things are getting out of control,” she said. “I like the mayor, I voted for him, but he has a big job on his hands. He’s going to need help to fix it. I pray that he can.”
Marilyn Hunte, 70, was walking home Monday when she was hit by a stray bullet. Peter Gerber
“We’re living in some scary times,” Hunte told The Post on Wednesday
Hunte was among the latest New Yorkers to be hit by errant bullets in recent weeks.
Also on Monday, a pregnant 19-year-old woman was sitting in a car in Washington Heights when she was struck and wounded, police said.
At least seven innocent bystanders have been hit by stray bullets in the five boroughs over the past month alone, including a retired NYPD detective.
