Global Courant 2023-05-01 12:43:58
Former White House adviser and Atlanta mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms said her cousin was nearly hit by a stray bullet that entered his bedroom over the weekend.
According to Bottoms, someone fired a gun into the air and the bullet pierced the wall of the house — “inches away” from hitting her cousin who was in bed.
“We are thankful that God protected him. If you have a gun, please act responsibly,” she wrote in a tweet on Saturday. “This could be you or your child.”
It is not clear who owns the house and where it is located.
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Bottoms previously lost a cousin to gunfire on June 13, 2014, when Darius Bottoms, 18, was shot in his car in a case of mistaken identity. FOX 5 Atlanta reported.
His murder was featured in an episode of “The Real Murders of Atlanta” on the Oxygen channel.
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Keisha Lance Bottoms said a stray bullet fired near her cousin’s home last weekend entered his bedroom and nearly hit him. (Getty)
Bottoms, a Democrat, last served in the Biden administration as director of the White House Office of Public Engagement. She announced in February that she would be stepping down from the position she had held since June.
She officially left the White House on April 1 and was replaced by former Columbia, South Carolina mayor Stephen Benjamin.
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Bottoms also served as mayor of Atlanta from 2018 to 2022, but decided not to seek re-election. She was hired as a political commentator at Global Courant after leaving the mayor’s office and before joining Biden’s team.