{"id":10912,"date":"2021-09-24T17:06:32","date_gmt":"2021-09-24T21:06:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crcvc.ca\/2021\/09\/24\/life-shattering-moment-donnas-story\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T04:00:33","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T08:00:33","slug":"life-shattering-moment-donnas-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crcvc.ca\/fr\/2021\/09\/24\/life-shattering-moment-donnas-story\/","title":{"rendered":"I Heard the Shot \u2013 Donna\u2019s Story"},"content":{"rendered":"\nDonna and her husband Sedrick decided to move from Ottawa back to Sedrick\u2019s birthplace in Jamaica, where they planned on starting a new business.\r\n\r\nThis didn\u2019t sit well with some people. Two men came to their home one day to challenge Sedrick. Donna grabbed her phone, running upstairs, hiding in the bathroom off their bedroom while her husband fought with one of the intruders downstairs.\r\n\r\nFrom her hiding place Donna heard the gunshot that killed her beloved husband. \u201cI called 9-1-1, hoping that the police would respond urgently and save our lives,\u201d says Donna. \u201cI heard the shot while I was on the phone talking with the dispatcher and while the second man was kicking in the bedroom door.\u201d\r\n\r\nSedrick\u2019s life was taken on November 17, 2013, the day Donna\u2019s life changed forever. Sedrick\u2019s killers are at large to this day.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donna and her husband Sedrick decided to move from Ottawa back to Sedrick\u2019s birthplace in Jamaica, where they planned on starting a new business. This didn\u2019t sit well with some people. Two men came to their home one day to challenge Sedrick. Donna grabbed her phone, running upstairs, hiding in the bathroom off their bedroom &#8230; <a title=\"I Heard the Shot \u2013 Donna\u2019s Story\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/crcvc.ca\/fr\/2021\/09\/24\/life-shattering-moment-donnas-story\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about I Heard the Shot \u2013 Donna\u2019s Story\">Lire plus<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-survivor-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crcvc.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crcvc.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crcvc.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crcvc.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10912"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/crcvc.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12260,"href":"https:\/\/crcvc.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10912\/revisions\/12260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crcvc.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crcvc.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crcvc.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}