Jessyca Sweeten was driving home late on the night of July 23 after seeing the play “Wicked” in Portland. Headed east on state Highway 14 in Vancouver, she suddenly heard a booming noise to her left.

“It was so loud I thought the airbag had actually gone off,” said Sweeten, 27, of Vancouver.

Days passed before Washington State Patrol investigators determined the sound came from a bullet, rather than debris, striking the top of the driver’s side door and shattering the window. The fractured glass lacerated Sweeten’s face and gathered in her left eye.

Sweeten said at a press conference Monday she didn’t see or hear anything suspicious, and no other cars were nearby when the incident took place at 11:27 p.m. between Evergreen Boulevard and Lieser Road.

“Shot in the dark, quite literally,” Sweeten said. “I didn’t see anything, hear anything. I mean, I was just driving.”