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Article: Vera Bradley bag saves woman's life
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- Charleston Daily Mail
- Article date:
- September 3, 2009
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BALTIMORE - Sitting in her car Tuesday night outside the Kennedy
Krieger Institute as police investigated a shooting, Ana Matheus
held up what may have spared her from serious injury: her Vera
Bradley handbag.
She reached in and pulled out her pocketbook; inside was a
checkbook, a credit card and a $20 bill, all pierced by a bullet
that narrowly missed striking her as she left work at the Kennedy
Krieger Institute.
Matheus was not harmed, but a female co-worker at Kennedy Krieger
was wounded when one of the stray bullets struck her in the hand
shortly before 7 p.m. Matheus said the woman was walking just a foot
in front of her when the shots rang out. She felt her bag, slung
over her right ...