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Model and Bronx native thankful to be alive after shot during T.I. concert at Irving Plaza
Maggie Carrie Heckstall, a Bronx native, was shot in the leg during Wednesday's mayhem at Irving Plaza.
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DENIS SLATTERY
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Updated: Thursday, May 26, 2016, 7:17 PM
The sultry stunner shot in the leg after a
deadly gunfight broke out at a T.I. concert is “grateful” to be alive.
Model Maggie Carrie Heckstall took to social media Thursday, saying she was lucky to survive the chaotic carnage that unfolded inside a green room at Irving Plaza.
“I’m SO VERY grateful for life,” Heckstall, 26, posted on Instagram.
The aspiring singer, who had been celebrating her birthday with friends all week, was recovering at Bellevue Hospital after Wednesday’s gunplay left Heckstall and two others wounded and 33-year-old Ronald McPhatter dead.
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Heckstall received a visit early Thursday morning from rap superstar 50 Cent.
“God is good,” she wrote later on Facebook.
The Bronx-born beauty was in a backstage area with T.I. and others around 10 p.m. Wednesday when a beef between rappers Troy Ave and Maino boiled over into bloodshed.
The T.I concert was part of Maggie Carrie Heckstall's week-long birthday celebration until the show turned into a nightmare.
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Surveillance video from the VIP area captured Troy Ave busting into a room and opening fire as onlookers cower against a wall, trying to shield one another from the bullets.
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Downstairs in the main concert hall, bedlam broke out as the crowd panicked and fought one another to flee the packed room, witnesses said.
Troy Ave, of Brownsville, Brooklyn, accidentally shot himself in the leg during the chaos, sources said.
He was charged with reckless endangerment and illegal weapons possession and is expected to face a murder charge pending the results of a ballistics test, according to sources.
Model thankful to be alive after shot at T.I. show in NYC