A family says they will stop flying the Confederate flag on their truck after “three black men” shot at them.
The man, who did not want to be identified, says he and his fiancee were visiting a friend in Greenview Meadows apartments in Gaston County, North Carolina.
One of the shots went through the driver’s door and lodged in the passenger seat.
Another hit the frame of the windshield, inches from his head.
Another bullet missed the man’s SUV and hit Jasmine Ford’s house nearby — which was flying an American flag at the time.
“I could have been shot,” she tells WSOC.
“It’s crazy because you could have lost lives over a flag.”
The bullet hit her room, just above the bed where she was laying. It was lodged in the wall on the other side of the room from her.
As a result of the incident, she’s now on the side of the driver flying the flag.
“It’s is just a piece of fabric. If you want to fly it, that’s your right,” Ford says.
The driver of the SUV says after the incident, the flag is “not worth flying anymore.”
Police have no suspects.
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