An Orthodox Jewish woman from Brooklyn, NY, thanked her lucky stars over the weekend after she was the victim of a drive-by shooting and her wig absorbed the blow of the projectiles.
The woman, 21, was standing at a street corner in Williamsburg when a dark car approached her. A passenger in the rear seat lowered the window, pulled out a weapon, and opened fire with rounds described by police as “beads of some kind”.
The woman escaped unscathed after her wig, which many Orthodox Jewish women wear as a religious head covering, was struck by the rounds.
The suspects fled the scene and have not been apprehended.
The shooting is the latest in a spate of violent attacks against Orthodox Jewish residents of Brooklyn, especially on visibly Jewish men.
Many of the recent attackers were Muslims. In one case, a Jewish teen was beaten in the face after refusing to say Free Palestine.