Inset: Christopher Corbi (Newtown Township Police). Background: Kathryn Runner discusses how she was shot in the wrist during a road rage incident in Pennsylvania (WPVI/YouTube).
A Pennsylvania woman said she considers herself lucky to be alive after a man shot her in an apparently unprovoked road rage incident as she was passing him on the highway.
"I had no road rage," victim Kathryn Runner told Philadelphia ABC affiliate WPVI. "I didn't, like, honk at him, I didn't flip him the bird. I didn't do anything to him. What gets me is a lot of cars passed him. What made him choose me?"
Newtown Township police said officers responded around 6:30 p.m. Monday for a shooting in the area of the Newtown Bypass and Woodbourne Road. When cops arrived, they found Runner suffering from a gunshot wound to her left wrist.
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Runner said she was driving when she came up on a vehicle driving slowly. She followed several cars that were passing the car.
"As I went around, I just saw something shiny in the corner of my eye, so I look over and I saw the barrel of the gun and then my window popped and then I saw the hole," she told the TV station.
The victim called 911 and began following the car to take down its license plate number. Suddenly, the driver of the car made a hard turn onto another road before allegedly firing two more shots at her. This time one of the bullets hit her. Runner said she felt her fingers go numb and realized she was shot.
"I definitely was screaming at the 911 operator that he's shooting at me," she said.
With the vehicle information in hand, cops found the suspect "within minutes" and took him into custody. Officers also found a gun in the car, the press release said. Christopher Corbi, 41, faces a slew of charges including attempted murder, aggravated assault and propulsion of missiles into an occupied vehicle.
Corbi remains at the Bucks County Jail without bond. His next court date is scheduled for Nov. 6.
Runner received a couple of stitches at the hospital. She told the TV station she is "thankful to be alive."
