CHAIRPERSON
I jumped out of my bed and went to help dad.   Neither Kim nor I saw or heard anyone or any vehicles outside in the driveway.   Whoever fired the shot was standing on the enclosed stoep directly outside the window.   The bullet nicked or ricocheted off the burglar bars on the window, and hit my father at very close range.  The bullet apparently came from a 9mm pistol.   He was standing holding the curtain and the bullet would have come through here, through the top of his arm, through both lungs, and out underneath this arm.  It pierced both his lungs, passed straight through his body, and retained enough velocity to hit the wall several metres behind him, and then to ricocheted across the room before landing on my bed.