A 79-year-old Minneapolis woman is recovering after being hit by gunfire inside her home early Sunday.

Steven Osthus says he still doesn't understand how it happened. One minute, his partner was sitting at the dining table, cutting vegetables. The next minute, she was shot in the abdomen. Police say the shot possibly came from a passing vehicle.

"I can't shake the picture of that bullet wound from my mind. Very difficult," Osthus said. "I keep thinking if it had been a little higher, it might have been really serious. She could have passed away."

He says doctors removed the bullet and part of her colon, and she's recovering in the hospital, but the trauma isn't over.

Back at the house, Osthus says everything feels different. Sitting in the same chair his partner was shot in just days a

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