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Brownsville grandma survives stray bullet to the neck

A Brownsville grandmother says she's lucky to be alive after being hit in the neck by a stray bullet Thursday. Margaret Johnson, 70, says she was cooking in her kitchen on East New York Avenue Thursday

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