Before the death of Nancy Davis, the Rio Grande Valley missionary who was shot in Mexico, there was young Amy Finley of Harlingen.
"He shot the only one that was looking at him... And that was me," she said.
A scarred over hole behind her right shoulder shows where the bullet penetrated her tiny body on November 1st, 2010.
The 3rd grader was caught in the cross fire of a suspected drug war during her family's missionary work in Mexico.
Her brother Thomas witnessed the shooting in the motel lobby where they were returning a room key at the time.
"I felt like I was going to die there too...Because I was so scared I couldn't breath," he said.
Their father, also Thomas, was still in the motel room at the time of the shooting.
"War broke out," he said. "Hand grenades, gas pumps caught fire... Outside our room it was hell... It was like being in the middle of a war."
That so-called war unfolded in an area that's now been identified as a known drug cartel checkpoint: San Fernando.
It's the same area where Nancy Davis was shot nearly 3 months later.
"It made me wonder if I should have gone public to explain it to everybody," the elder Thomas Finley said. "To try to encourage missionaries to leave the country... But every week there are advisory warnings from the government not to go into Mexico."
His 9-year-old daughter needs regular medical check ups.
Her life was saved in a San Antonio hospital.
She was flown there after two other stops following the shooting which included one hospital in Mexico.
The bullet she was struck with remains lodged inside her body.
Amy said it still causes her pain.
She does forgive her attacker.
"Because I know it wasn't him... That it was just the drugs... And the devil," she said.
The Finley's missionary work will continue, but dad said it will not take place in Mexico any time soon.
"We'll probably go to China... Or someplace safe... Cause it's not safe to go into Mexico right now," Finley said.
The family said the violence south of the border has left them scarred both physically and emotionally.
They warn other missionaries to avoid work in Mexico.
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