Cognac Littrell had been a rideshare driver for a very long time in Mississippi when, on the late morning of Nov. 2, 2021, she got a standard ride from a high rise in Jackson.

The young fellow she got “just seemed like someone that was attempting to get to work,” she tells Individuals.

“He was like, ‘How you doing? I want to get my companion and afterward we will work.'” At the primary stop, he said he was getting his companion — however he got back to the vehicle alone.

That is the point at which Littrell’s life was everlastingly different. “He said something I didn’t actually catch, and when I went to take a gander at him, he guided a weapon toward my face,” she says. “You see this stuff on television, yet it never happens to you.” Littrell, presently 37, charges the young fellow, who was subsequently distinguished as Dontarius Magee, requested her keys, telephone, watch and check cards prior to driving her into the rearward sitting arrangement of her Evade Excursion.

He then, at that point, began peppering her with questions. “What’s your pin number?,” she says. “Is it safe to say that you are lying about the number? How much cash do you have in the bank?”

Littrell says her hijacker began driving inconsistently with “his left hand on the firearm pointed at me and his right hand on the directing wheel.”

He pulled over at an apartment building where he advised her to help out of the vehicle and stroll through the forest, she says.

“We strolled through the forest for seemingly perpetually — a fourth of a mile, at any rate,” she says. At a certain point, he advised her to get kneeling down.

“The principal shot goes off, hitting me in the thigh,” she says. “The effect thumped me level on the ground.” She didn’t feel the subsequent shot.

“The main shot I felt went into the rear of my neck,” she says. “All I recollect was ringing in my ears and blood dribbling down my neck and face.

“Dontarius Magee” Lyft Driver Recounts Being Kidnapped and Shot 7 Times: ‘I’m Not Going to Make It. This Is How I Die’

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My glasses went to red and I thought, ‘I won’t make it. This is the way I die.'” Littrell says she was shot a sum of multiple times. “I figured I would die,” she says.

Around 10 minutes after the fact, she opened her eyes to find the shooter was no more. “I was alive,” she says.

“Be that as it may, my 75-year-old grandmother was at my home, and [the attacker] has my keys, he has my location, he has my carport entryway opener. I needed to caution her.”

Littrell had the option to slither to a little tree and recover financially. Phenomenally, she hauled herself to an apartment building where somebody called for help.

“At the point when we got to the medical clinic, there’s a group of 20 specialists and medical attendants prepared to get to work,” she says.

“I requested that they call my grandma, save her. Furthermore, they saved me.” Littrell, who currently drives for an organization however quit filling in as a rideshare driver, endured seven days recuperating in the emergency clinic. She has had a renewed perspective since the assault.

“In the wake of being shot, I’m attempting to carry on with my best life now,” she says. “I’ve taken get-aways, rather than being a compulsive worker. Presently, I deal with life like it’s a gift.”

Magee was prosecuted in December on charges of endeavored murder, abducting, outfitted burglary and furnished carjacking.

He presently can’t seem to enter a request and Individuals couldn’t arrive at his lawyer.