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A woman was asleep at 4 a.m. Saturday when she was shocked awake by a terrible, burning pain in her foot.

She had just been shot by a bullet that came through the ceiling of her apartment from a gun fired in the apartment above.

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It was one of two unrelated east-end shootings early Saturday morning.

Her husband called 911 and his mother.

“They’re a newlywed couple. They just got married in February,” said his mother, who asked not to be identified because she’s afraid.

“They’re only 25, just starting out. They’ve lost their bed. The police took their comforter, their pillows, their blankets (as evidence). Their mattress is full of blood. So they don’t even have a bed.

“That’s some Christmas gift.

“Thank God they’re alive. He could have shot her in the head.”

Sgt. Mike Saunders of the guns and gangs unit said one 43-year-old man had been taken into custody in relation to the shooting and was being held on other outstanding charges against him.