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65-Year-Old Woman Shot Inside Home Near Avalon Park

CHICAGO (CBS) -- A 65-year-old woman is recovering at home this morning, after she was shot in her own house in the Avalon Park neighborhood.

As police search for clues, CBS 2's Mugo Odigwe spoke with the victim.

Loretta Jordan said she was in her bed inside her house near 85th Street and Dante Avenue, when she heard gunshots around 11:20 p.m. Thursday.

She got up to make sure everything was okay. Soon after, she realized she'd been shot.

"I said, 'I don't believe this. I just got shot,'" she said.

Those were the words Jordan said to her son when she felt something like blood trickling down her leg.

She didn't want to show her face on camera, but was willing to talk to us about what happened.

"The bullet fell out of my leg in my hand," she said.

Her son quickly called 911. An ambulance took her to University of Chicago Medical Center.

"It wasn't any pain at first. I didn't even realize I was shot," she said.

Police said someone outside her house shot into Jordan's home. She was hit in her thigh.

"I don't know … who they were, or the purpose, but I'm told they were shooting up the block," she said.

Earlier this week we told you about a similar shooting in Morgan Park. Sunday night, 71-year-old Emma Wright was on her couch when two people outside fired into her home.

Police said the shooters targeted Wright's house, possibly looking for family members who recently moved in. But Wright was hit instead, and died at the hospital.

Jordan is grateful her story ended differently.

"Thank God. Oh, I just thank God, and I feel for families who have to go through similar things and worse," she said.

She's still trying to come to terms with the fact that it happened at all.

"It is scary, because it happened. They say too close to home, it was home," she said.

Jordan said she's doing okay and can walk on her own.

Police are still searching for the shooter or shooters.

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