AKRON, Ohio — The 25-year-old Akron woman who was shot in her home by masked invaders earlier this week said she grabbed a gun to try to protect herself. No arrests have been made.
The suspects are either men, or male teens, who entered the back door of Jasmine Scaffidi's home on East Crosier Street. At least three had guns.
Scaffidi came out of her bathroom and was confronted by the armed intruders.
“It was very scary,” said Scaffidi. “I was terrified, but I didn’t show it.”
Scaffidi said she grabbed a gun from a cabinet to defend herself. She tried to cock the gun, but before she could do that, one of the suspects shot her in the left leg.
“I fell to the ground,” she said. “I like, got blurry, fell to the ground and started screaming.”
The bullet traveled up to her abdominal area. She has since had two surgeries and continues to recover at Cleveland Clinic Akron General.
“I’m happy to be alive,” she said. “I’m happy because they could have hit somewhere higher.”
Scaffidi said during one of the surgeries, doctors move a vein from her calf to the upper part of her leg and she believes that may have saved her from losing her leg.
"I couldn't even move my toes. Now, I can move my toes and actually feel my leg more than I could when I first got here."
Scaffidi says she lives at home with relatives, but she doesn’t know why any of them would be targeted in such a terrifying way.
She thinks it could have been a random robbery attempt.
Police have no suspects.
“This is not OK,” she said. “I would like to know they’re captured."
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