Audrey Mayo had only known Matthew Webb for a few weeks when he shot her in the leg. Picture: Facebook Source: Supplied
LOVE can blossom in the most unlikely circumstances. And for one couple, it seems Cupid has swapped his bow and arrow for a rifle.
Audrey Mayo and Matthew Webb officially became a couple on November 21. But that date is also significant for another reason. It's the day Matthew accidentally shot Audrey.
The pair were hanging out on the roof of Matthew's mother's house in the small town of LaFayette, Georgia.
He spotted some deer across the road and decided to try and shoot one. Ms Mayo stayed on the roof, but soon thought she heard Matthew calling for her.
She climbed down from the roof, walked across the street and called out to him.
"I was doing like a half yell," Audrey told timesfreepress.com. "I didn't want to scare the deer away."
As he hunted in thick bushes looking for the deer, Matthew heard rustling and saw movement. He gripped his rifle, aimed and fired.
"And then I heard a gunshot," Audrey said. "And then I felt it. And then I hit the ground."
Audrey's family now laugh about the whole incident. Picture: Facebook Source: Supplied
She woke up in hospital days later with Matthew at her bedside. He was so nervous about talking to her that he read from a note he'd written earlier.
The bullet sliced through a vein that runs behind her right kneecap, damaging some nerves. She's currently on nine medications and the pain is often unbearable.
"It hurts on top of my knee," she said. "And behind my knee. And on my shin, my calf, my ankle, my hip. The whole thing hurts.
"If she contracts a serious infection, her leg may have to be amputated."
But Audrey's family aren't angry at Matthew. The shooting was an accident, and he's even moved in with Audrey's family to help care for her.
His actions haven't come without consequences, mind you. He was arrested for firing a gun within 150 feet of a road and police say he could be charged with misuse of a firearm, a hunting license violation and failing to wear orange.
Despite the pain, Audrey's family have found a way to laugh about the whole thing.
"Once we realised she was alive - and that she was going to be alive - we started to lighten up a little bit," said Audrey's sister, Rachel Mayo Greer.
There are few couples who could survive such a saga.
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