Cleveland woman fights for life after being shot in the head

CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO) – A 51-year-old Parma Heights man is beneath arrest for allegedly taking pictures a girl within the head on Cleveland’s West aspect final week.

Yuri Kornik is at present charged with felonious assault.

Cleveland police stated Kornik shot Britney Napier, 27, on March 25 close to W. twenty third Road and Denison Avenue. That is within the metropolis’s Brooklyn Centre neighborhood.

In keeping with household, Napier and her boyfriend have been heading to her mom’s home once they had automobile hassle and pulled over.

“Her boyfriend obtained out of the automobile and obtained a battery booster to try to begin the automobile again up, ” stated Napier’s mother Stephanie Gomez. “He obtained the automobile again up. When he put it in reverse, that’s when the man got here out of no the place and stated freeze and he stated don’t shoot, I’m making an attempt to get my automobile began and the man simply began taking pictures,”

Police have been within the space and heard the gunshots. They discovered Napier shot within the head.

Napier is recovering at MetroHealth Medical Heart, however members of the family stated she is paralyzed on the left aspect of her physique.

“I simply need my daughter to come back via and survive,” stated Gomez.

“The bullet remains to be in her head. They’ve to attend till the swelling goes down earlier than they’ll do something about that,” stated Napier’s aunt Ella Carpenter.

Napier’s boyfriend was not injured.

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