JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- Bridget Gilmore still can't believe what happened Monday night in her Northside home.

"I was getting ready to lean forward to do something," she said. "I was about to get up, and I heard pop, pop, pop, then a bang. And then the window broke, and I was like, 'Who broke my window?' And then all of a sudden something went right across my face."

When she looked again, she realized that "something" was a bullet that had just barely grazed her face.

"I thank God for my life right now," Gilmore said.

She said it was so close that she could feel the heat from the bullet, and now she even has a small burn mark right between her eyes.

"When I looked, I jerked back," Gilmore said. "I looked and I seen this bullet hole, and I said, 'Oh my God, there's bullets flying.' And I thought about my kids in the kitchen and dove on the floor. At the same time, I'm looking like, 'It was in my face. Did it hit me?"

The bullet came through the living room window right next to where Gilmore was sitting. It traveled all the way through to her couch, then up into the wall."

It didn't stop there. The bullet then went through her kitchen just behind her microwave and all the way up to her ceiling before it ricocheted and landed on the floor right next to where her 2-year-old niece was eating dinner.

"It just doesn't make any sense," Gilmore said. "None at all."

This all happened in the same apartment complex on Harts Road where 13-year-old Shenice Holmes was shot and killed by a stray bullet three years ago.

The honor student was sitting on her bed reading a book when a bullet went through her bedroom wall.

"Children have actually died of senseless crimes like that," Gilmore said. "They die for no reason, and it bothers me because I think about my niece and my daughter. They had a stray bullet bouncing around the kitchen with them, and there's nothing I could do. I can't beat a bullet."