CLEVELAND — A group joined hands in prayer on this Good Friday, thanking God in an unlikely spot.
They stood at the same home on Wendy Drive in Cleveland where dozens of bullets pierced through the glass and drywall late Thursday night, feeling blessed that everyone made it out alive.
Reina Hills showed us around inside. There were little holes everywhere: through walls, through windows, littering plaster and paint along the couch her mother sometimes falls asleep on.
One was marked just two feet above the bed where Reina's head lay, trying to sleep when the first shots were fired just down the road.
"I was just laying right here," Hills said, "and it was right there, and right there, and there was another one right here."
Activists and family say a gun fight began outside several doors down while the family was sleeping. The house was behind the person or people being shot at, and now bares the scars from dozens of bullets that mostly missed but did graze Reina's mom in the foot.
"This family was, I ain't going to say lucky, because we don't believe in luck when we talking bullets," Donna Walker Brown, a community activist with Black on Black Crime Inc., stated. "This family was blessed, they were covered, because there's no reason that a family who was not involved [should be affected like this]. This has nothing to do with them.
"This house was shot up 35 times. Eighty-five bullets were found."
A brace now covers the mother's injury as she hobbles to hug friends and family who have come to call for peace.
"We have to bridge the gap with the community and the police and with our young people," Delores Gray, president of the Carl Stokes Brigade, said, "because they are the ones being affected by this and affecting families like this."
The four suspects in this shooting haven't been caught, so activists and family are asking that if you see something, say something and call police.