UP HERE SHORTLY. JASON. THANK YOU. A WOMAN WHO WAS SHOT IN THE BACK WITH AN AR 15 RIFLE IS OUT OF THE HOSPITAL TONIGHT, AND THE MAN ACCUSED OF PULLING THE TRIGGER IS BEHIND BARS. DEVON SMITH TURNED HIMSELF IN TO DES MOINES POLICE ABOUT 13 HOURS AFTER THE SHOOTING ON BOSTON AVENUE. KCCI MARCUS MCINTOSH SAT DOWN WITH THE VICTIM TODAY TO LEARN WHAT HAPPENED, BECAUSE GOD STOOD BY MY SIDE AND IF IT WASN’T FOR HIM, I WOULD NOT BE HERE. SHANESE PERRY LAY IN HER HOSPITAL BED WEDNESDAY MORNING, RECOVERING FROM THE INJURIES SHE SUFFERED AFTER GETTING SHOT THREE TIMES WITH AN AR 15 RIFLE. I GOT A FRACTURED HIP. I GOT THREE BULLET HOLES IN MY BACK. I’M HURTING REALLY BAD. HER SUV DOTTED WITH THE HOLES FROM RIFLE ROUNDS. PERRY SAYS SOME OF THE SHRAPNEL FROM THOSE ROUNDS ARE STILL IN HER BODY. YOU NEVER THINK IN A MILLION YEARS THAT YOU WOULD GO THROUGH SOMETHING LIKE THIS. SHE SAYS THE VIOLENCE BEGAN MONDAY NIGHT WHEN SHE TRIED TO INTERVENE WHEN HER YOUNGER SISTER AND HER BOYFRIEND, WHO WERE PHYSICALLY FIGHTING. ACCORDING TO PERRY, THE MAN WAS PUNCHING HER SISTER IN THE FACE AND SLAMMING HER UP AGAINST THE CAR. I’M TELLING HIM, MONTY, CALM DOWN, CALM DOWN, CALM DOWN. HE’S SITTING THERE SAYING, I’LL BEAT BOTH OF YOU BEES UP. THE COUPLE ENDED UP DRIVING OFF. SHANESE DECIDED TO GET IN HER CAR AND FOLLOW THEM TO MAKE SURE HER SISTER WAS OKAY. WHEN SHE PULLED UP BESIDE THE BOYFRIEND’S VEHICLE, SHE SAYS SHE SAW A RIFLE IN HIS HANDS. THEN BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM, BOOM BOOM. SHE TELLS US SHE JUMPED INTO THE PASSENGER SEAT AND OUT THE PASSENGER DOOR TO ESCAPE THE RIFLE FIRE. I’M YELLING, SAYING I’M HIT, I’M HIT, I’M HIT. I’VE BEEN SHOT. PERRY GOT BACK IN HER SUV AND DROVE HERSELF TO BROADLAWNS MEDICAL CENTER. THE ACCUSED SHOOTER, DAMANI SMITH, LATER TURNED HIMSELF IN. ACCORDING TO COURT DOCUMENTS, SMITH TELLS A DIFFERENT TALE THAT POLICE DID NOT BUY THE CRIMINAL COMPLAINT SAYS, QUOTE, THE DEFENDANT CLAIMED HE LEFT THE AREA AND WAS CUT OFF BY THE VICTIM, AT WHICH POINT TWO UNKNOWN MALES EXITED HER VEHICLE AND POINTED GUNS AT HIM, SO HE FIRED IN SELF-DEFENSE. INVESTIGATORS SAY THEY ALSO SPOKE TO PERRY’S SISTER, WHO CLAIMED THE TWO MEN EXITED THE VEHICLE. COURT DOCUMENTS SAY THE EVIDENCE AND WITNESS STATEMENTS SUBSTANTIATE THERE WAS NO OTHER INDIVIDUALS IN THE VICTIM’S VEHICLE. I GUESS THE GOOD THING OUT OF IT IS I’M ALIVE. IN DES M