MCCOMB, Miss. (AP) - A southwest Mississippi woman wants help finding the men who shot her multiple times.
“I ain’t dead,” Rotheka Coleman declared to the Enterprise-Journal in a telephone interview from her hospital room at the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson.
Coleman said she believes 35-year-old Michael Alexander of McComb and 28-year-old Jonathan Mars of Gloster were trying to rob her when they shot her Oct. 25 while she was sitting in her car in a McComb neighborhood. Both men are now wanted on charges of attempted murder.
The shooting came after the men began following her closely and flashing their headlights. She drove to the McComb police station, where there was a confrontation. Coleman said officers questioned the men but released them, only to have them shoot her later that night.
Coleman says she believes Alexander and Mars sought to rob her, thinking she had money after she had purchased a new car. One man shot her four times, and then handed the gun to the other man and told him to shoot her again “to make sure I was dead,” Coleman said. She was hit in both arms, her right hand and her back.
“When they shot me the fifth time, I just laid there and they ran off,” Coleman said.
“These people are walking the streets,” Coleman said.
The woman survived, driving herself to Southwest Mississippi Regional Medical Center in McComb where she blacked out behind the wheel and was rushed inside.
Coleman said she has known Alexander since childhood, but was relatively unfamiliar with Mars.
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Information from: Enterprise-Journal, http://www.enterprise-journal.com
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