Woman gets shot in head, makes tea

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Jackson County, Miss. -- A Mississippi woman who was shot in the head not only survived but made herself tea and offered an astonished deputy something to drink, authorities said Friday.

Tammy Sexton, 47, was in bed when her estranged husband, on probation for domestic violence, entered their home just after midnight and shot her with a .380 handgun. The bullet struck her squarely in the forehead, passed through her skull and exited through the back of her head. The husband then went out on the back porch and shot himself, authorities said.

When the officer got there she said, `What's going on?' She was holding a rag on her head and talking, but she was confused about what had happened. She had made herself some tea and offered the officer something to drink.

She is expected to fully recover.

While such cases may be rare, a neurosurgeon who wasn't involved in Sexton's case said such an outcome is possible. Medical journals also confirm people have been shot in the head with little or no lasting injury.

"There is a space in the brain where a missile could pass without doing any major damage. Is it possible? Yes. It would be rare," said Dr. Patrick Pritchard, an assistant professor of surgery at the University of Alabama-Birmingham.