An 84-year-old Brooklyn cancer survivor who was struck by a stray bullet while sitting in her walker told The Post on Tuesday that she’s happy she’s cheated death again.
“It’s a miracle,” Althea Lawson said from her hospital bed.
“I don’t have enough tongue to tell God thanks I’m still here today. Thank God it never hit me in my head!”
Lawson was struck in her left arm by the errant bullet while she sat on the sidewalk near the corner of Brooklyn Avenue and Foster Avenue in East Flatbush around 6:45 p.m. Monday, police said.
Althea Lawson, 84, was hit in the left arm by a stray bullet while sitting in her walker in Brooklyn on Monday. N.Y. Post/Georgett Roberts
She was rushed to Kings County Hospital where she is still recovering.
Lawson said she was about to head home after chatting with friends when she heard the shots.
“By the time they crossed the street to go and get their car and I’m about to go back to my apartment, I heard a heap of bow, bow, bow,” she said.
“I didn’t move. I saw the people running but I didn’t realize I got shot. I did not feel it.”
“I looked down on my hand and I saw the blood running from my hand, my hand was full of blood,” she Lawson said.
“It was dripping on the sidewalk. That’s when I realized something knocked me and I wondered what it was. I said, ‘Oh my God, help me! Help me!’”
Her family said they were grateful she lived to tell her story.
“I’m so thankful,” her daughter, Carine Scott, said Tuesday.
“I’m just praying she’s at peace with herself. I’m happy she survived to tell her story. Many have not. I think she will tell this story, she will see the boys on the corner and she would tell them, ‘Don’t get into trouble.’
Enid Lawson, 88, said her younger sister, Althea, is now hospitalized with a gunshot wound after being hit on Monday. Michael Nagle
“The doctors are trying to take care of the blood clots, so she was having blood thinners,” added Scott, 60.
“My mother is a cancer survivor. She’s in remission. She’s recuperating.”
The octogenarian was not the intended target of the shooter, according to law enforcement sources.
The victim’s red walker was left on the sidewalk next to a blood-splatter stain as nearly 20 shell casings littered the street, photos of the aftermath show.
Enid Lawson, 88, said her wounded 84-year-old sister, Althea Lawson, was always “the funny one” of the pair. Michael Nagle
“It was like so the first volley was four or five shots then the second volley was eight or nine shots. But real fast so it was hard to count,” one first responder who asked not to be identified told The Post.