From KERA:
Stephanie Bond was married to her husband for almost 22 years before he called her into the master bedroom one afternoon in February 2010.
“He pulled out a .45-caliber gun and shot me three times in our walk-in closet with three of the four children at the home,” Bond said.
“After he shot me, he put the gun in his mouth and killed himself — and died next to me.”
“After he shot me, he put the gun in his mouth and killed himself — and died next to me.”
Bond survived and is one of almost 1 million women that have been shot or shot at by their partner, according to analysis of U.S. Department of Justice data. More than 4 million women have been threatened with a gun.
