Twenty-four-year-old Sydney Leday is lucky to be alive after she was shot in Houston, Texas, on Nov. 1. Leday was hit in the crossfire of the shooting that took the life of beloved recording artist TakeOff.
Leday — who was shot in the head and spent a week in the hospital — sat down with reporter Grace White from KHOU11 News on Jan. 18 to tell her story. Leday is from Houston but had been living in Los Angeles, California. She was back in Houston to celebrate her 24th birthday two days before the shooting. She was also celebrating Halloween with a friend and said she was dressed up as a nun for the occasion.
“I really never dress up for Halloween,” she said. “And that was something I was excited about.”
Leday said she showed up at 810 Billiards and Bowling Alley for a private party at around midnight. The woman said she had a few drinks and the evening seemed normal until people started arguing while playing dice around 2:30 a.m. Leday said it seemed as though the argument began to get heated, although at first, it seemed like friendly banter between the players.
She said Quavo became upset and said he wanted to leave. “That’s when I knew something was wrong,” she remembered. Leday began to run away when the argument escalated and described the moment she felt the bullet hit her in the back of the head.
“I felt the sting in the back of the head,” she recalled. “I felt myself falling, and the person I was with picked me up, and we got in the car. But it was just, it was like a real, like a scary movie, really. Ironically, it was Halloween night. I had, I had on a, um, nun outfit. I had blood all over me.”
Leday’s friend helped her down the escalator and rushed her to the Memorial Hermann Hospital, 12 minutes away. She described calling her mother from the car before having a seizure.
“I was up the whole time, um, after I got shot in the head, and I called my mom and told her what happened and to…
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