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A TV news reporter is speaking out about surviving a shooting last year

Winnie Dortch, a reporter at Chicago's WGN-TV, was shot five times by her daughter's father, Bryant Carter, who then died by suicide

“I was shot in the mouth, which hurts the most because that’s part of my career,” Dortch told WGN-TV.

A TV news reporter is sharing her story for the first time since surviving a shooting last year.

Winnie Dortch, a reporter at Chicago's WGN-TV, was shot five times by her daughter's father on Oct. 7, 2024, in Cleveland, Ohio, she told 19 News .

Dortch had dropped off their daughter at school that morning when Bryant Carter, who had been tailing her, forced her out of her car at gunpoint and into his, WGN-TV reported.

“I remember him saying, ‘You know if you get out

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