The stillness of a quiet Sunday morning was violently broken by a barrage of gunfire in a Silver Spring neighborhood.

A white Jeep riddled with bullet holes is where police say a 47-year-old woman was sitting when she was allegedly shot by her ex-boyfriend.

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The shooting happened shortly after 8 a.m. outside of a home on Imperial Drive.

“We heard like ‘bang, bang, bang, bang, bang,’ about 12,” said Roslyn Brown, a neighbor. “It sounded like a truck backfiring, but it was too much of it to be a truck backfiring.”

Brown has been staying with her brother in a house right across the street where the shooting happened. She described how shocking it was when people realized what had happened.

"The first thing we saw was the

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