El Paso, Tex., woman hit by stray Mexican bullet EL PASO, Texas - El Paso's mayor is appealing for public calm after a woman was wounded while shopping downtown by a stray bullet from neighboring Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. Mayor John Cook told the El Paso Times "people get struck by lightning, too, and that doesn't make us stay indoors when there is a rainstorm." The woman was struck about a half-mile from the border and about a mile from where a carjacking in Ciudad Juarez was reported. Three El Paso schools were put on lockdown as a precaution. "We had a lady grazed by a stray bullet we (believed could) be from Mexico during a gun battle where a carjacking was perceived to be taking place," Police Chief Greg Allen said, according to CBS affiliate KDBC-TV. Since drug-related violence in Juarez spiked in 2008, bullets have struck El Paso buildings but never a person. Police Chief Allen told the El Paso Times that "the woman was a 48-year-old mother who was pushing a child in a stroller when she was shot in the upper right calf," with the bullet passing through her leg.