skb >> i said your little sister, how old are you? she got a little indignant, she said i'm 19.e sister? she's 16. look, ann marie, i don't know what you want me to do about this, and i believe i said thanks for coming by. with that i turned my head, went for the door and that was end of my life as i knew it. >> that bullet had gone in, broke the jaw, severed the carotid artery. for whatever reason, that bullet wound up at the base of her brain above her spinal column. >> they told us, she's going to die. she'll be blind. >> mary jo was in surgery for seven hours. they were never able to remove the bullet. it was just too precarious. >> reporter: the shooting instantly makes headlines. >> this kind of thing doesn't happen to people like her. she's the all-american mother and woman and wife. >> the detectives didn't know what it was. the neighbors didn't know what it was. reporters had no idea what it was about. >> i don't know how long it was. next day, day after that. >> i asked her, who did this to you? and she couldn't speak, she was trying to write. >> and i just wrote down