Woman hit by stray bullet in South Side home

CHICAGO (WLS) -- A woman is recovering after a bullet flew through the window of her home, hitting her in the face Friday morning on the city's South Side.

Police say a car on South Brennan Street opened fire around 8 a.m., showering the neighborhood with bullets.

One went through the windshield of a car on the 9600-block of South Brennan and would have hit the man who was about to get into that car if he hadn't jumped out of the way.

Another crossed a clearing between two residential lots, crossed South Crandon Avenue and went through the window of Alicia Key's house.

"I leaned over to take something out of my Tupperware dish and put it into my Rubbermaid dish to take to work and I heard something explode. And had I not been bending over it would have gone through my eye," Key said.

She suffered a graze wound and said was blinded for a few minutes by the injury as her husband rushed over to see what had happened.

"He told me that someone had shot through the window and at that point I panicked and just started crying," Key said.

Key and her family have lived on this street since 1971. She says she has watched the neighborhood change and Friday morning's trauma was likely the last push to get her to move somewhere else.