TEAM COVERAGE: Victim Talks About Being Shot
Posted: 7:10 p.m. EST February 23, 2005
Jefferson County, OH -- (Managing Editor's note: This story is part of NEWS 9's team coverage of the abduction and assault of Brenda Kmatz. For more, please read "Woman Escapes, Survives Shooting" on the main NEWS page).
A woman who was shot and survived talked to News 9 about her dramatic experience. Tuesday around noon police say Sean Kmatz abducted his wife Brenda. Brenda was at the nearby bowling alley in Amsterdam, Ohio when she says her estranged husband Sean showed up with a gun. Brenda tells News 9, "my girlfriend said Brenda and I turned around and there he (Sean) was. He said I need to talk to you and I walked over and he pulled a gun out and threw me outside on the cement and told me to get in the van. He had the gun to my head and told me to get in the van." From the bowling alley Brenda says Sean drove to a nearby field in Carroll County, "we drove about 90 miles an hour up through the back road and drove us over the hill, threw the field and over the hill." Brenda says she could not leave because he had a gun with him at all times which she says he used to shoot her in the back of the head. She also says when he went to reload she found her chance to escape, "I climbed through the window and ran about four miles up a hill through a field to these older couple's house and called 9-1-1 and stayed in their basement until they came. When I was running I couldn't hear because my ears were ringing but I thought I can do this, I just kept running and running until I saw the light of the house and knocked on the door. I just knew I was going to be alive for my kids." Brenda says she filed for divorce earlier this month which she believes triggered the attack. Brenda is out of the hospital and doing well. Brenda is the proud mother of three beautiful children.
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