San Francisco Woman Could Lose Eyesight After Random Paintball Attack

After a fun weekend at Outside Lands, a San Francisco woman was hit several times in a random, drive-by paintball shooting.

According to CBS SF, Zoe Gisewhite was sitting at a bus stop waiting to head home when she was struck multiple times by paintball. She may be permanently blind in one eye from the random attack.

The incident happened on the bus stop bench at Sunset Boulevard and Noriega Street in the Outer Sunset District around midnight on October 30. She says her partner was standing in front of her while they waited.

“And a car drove by within a couple of minutes and just shot us from the car, never stopped, just continued,” Gisewhite told CBS SF. “It hit him 6 times in back, and then hit me 3. I got hit in the leg, the hand, and the eye. My eye immediately filled up with blood and shut. I couldn’t see anything.”

According to the police, the sedan drove away at high speed.

“It’s healing very nicely outside, but inside there’s nothing there, I can’t see anything right now,” she added.

The 29-year-old has lived in San Francisco for four years and is a colorist at Spoke and Weal. She's unsure if she will be able to fully return to work.

“I just want someone to know that this is happening in the neighborhood, and if you’ve seen it, maybe they’ve been shooting your house or your car to come forward and kind of help me because I’m blind and I didn’t do anything,” Gisewhite said.

She has set up a GoFundMe page to help pay for her medical expenses from the accident.