SPOKANE, Wash. — Looking back at what happened at his home in late October, Carl Hunter realizes he was inches away from having his life be drastically different.

On Oct. 30, the Boundary County resident was talking with a friend on his cellphone when a stray bullet ripped through a bay window in Hunter’s home, leaving him with a gash on his neck. Hunter subsequently took himself to the hospital where the staff were required to stitch up the cut.

“What I mainly remember was the sound of the glass breaking,” said Hunter during an interview with KREM on Friday. “I just feel like I was really blessed to not be dead.”