HAMPTON, Va. — The owner of a Hampton restaurant was injured in a shooting Saturday evening.
44-year-old Tamika Luster, the owner of Black Kettle Grill and Seafood was sitting in her restaurant with her son when a drive-by shooting occurred.
“Bullet holes are bad, but this one brings home the reality of how close we were to being killed because all three of us sit here," said Luster, as she pointed to the main window of her restaurant.
Hampton Police said they received a call at around 6 p.m. about a shooting that happened in the 900 block of West Pembroke Ave.
When they got there, they found Luster injured by gunfire. The bullet went through her arm and into her chest. Luster tells 13Newnow she was shot a day after her birthday.
“I’m recovering, I’m going to have to have reconstruction surgery. I have shrapnel in my arm...peppered down my leg and I’m really thankful that it wasn’t my son or my cook that was killed," said Luster.
Police are still investigating the motive and circumstances surrounding this shooting.
They don’t have any suspect information to share at this point.
Luster hopes police find who pulled the trigger.
“You really didn’t care about the people’s lives you are affecting. I could have died, my some could have died, he’s 13 years old, my cook could have died. You’re affecting incomes, you’re affecting livelihoods,” said Luster.
Saturday afternoon, Hampton police were investigating another homicide in the 2700 block of Abbey Court. Police tell us the two shootings are not related.