Woman survives gunshot to the head: 'God is not ready for me'

"God is not ready for me yet," she said from her north Milwaukee home Thursday.

"If I wouldn't have had Him, I probably would have been gone."

Moton's latest chapter of survival came Sunday, March 3, as she was standing outside her home, letting her dog out.

Across the street from Moton, two men were arguing just after 3:30 p.m., Milwaukee Police Det. Joshua Nemeth wrote in an affidavit filed in Milwaukee County Circuit Court.

The argument between the two men turned to gunfire.

"I don't know who shot first," Moton said.

As one of the men lay on the ground dead, the other drove away from the scene, police said.

Moton, too, had been shot, but she did not realize it right away.

"I didn't know if there was a hole in my head or not until I told my niece to look at me, and she said, 'Auntie,' and started crying, 'You've got the bullet in your head."

The bullet, according to Nemeth's affidavit, was lodged between Moton's scalp and her skull.

"It was hot. So when I came here, I didn't panic. I sat on the couch. I raised my arms up, sat back down and waited on the paramedics," she said.

Moton, 57, would spend three days in a hospital.

The man who fell to the ground across the street died. The Milwaukee County Medical Examiner identified the man as Kenneth Townsend. Police believe Townsend, 42, exchanged gunfire with the man who left the scene.

Nemeth said the man who pulled off from the scene drove himself to St. Joseph's hospital, also having suffered multiple gunshots.

Nemeth said the investigation revealed one of the gunshots from the man who drove himself to the hospital hit Moton.

Although the affidavit identified the man by name, 12 News is not publishing his name because he has not been criminally charged. Detectives, according to the document, are seeking intentional homicide charges against the man, who is 34 and a convicted felon who is not legally allowed to possess a gun.

The affidavit said the man knew Townsend.

While Moton wants justice, her focus is on her family.

"I love my life, and I'm living for something; I'm living for my two children and my seven grandkids," Moton said.