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Seven-Year-Old Alexis Goggins Takes Six Bullets to Protect Her Mother

Seliethia Parker always saw her role as protector for her 7-year-old daughter, Alexis Goggins. But it was Alexis who ended up saving her mother’s life by using her little body to shield her mom from a fusillade of bullets.

They were in the car last December when Parker’s former boyfriend, 29-year-old Calvin Tillie, jumped out of nearby bushes and forced his way into the car and attacked the pair at a nearby gas station.

“Me and Alexis was left in the car with him at gunpoint and he starting shooting,” Parker told GMA.

Fearing for her mother’s life, Alexis bolted into the car’s front seat, crying out, “Don’t hurt my mother.”

“Alexis jumped over the seat to try and save my life,” Parker said.

Using her tiny body as a shield, Alexis blocked six gunshots from hitting her mother. The bullets pierced her right eye, chin, cheek, chest and jaw. When police arrived to the scene, they found Alexis in a pool of blood, curled beneath the steering wheel.

Parker also had been shot in the side of the head and the arm.

Both Parker and her daughter survived, though Alexis endured two painful months in the hospital and underwent six surgeries. Despite doctors’ prediction that Alexis may never walk or talk again, Alexis is thriving. She’s not only walking and talking, she’s expected to have a full recovery.

Alexis said she doesn’t consider herself a hero and said she wasn’t scared during the event.

“I saved my mom,” she said and added she loved her mother a lot and didn’t want to see her get hurt.

Parker has endless gratitude for her selfless daughter.

“She’s my angel and I love her to death,” she said.

The man who allegedly attacked the pair is charged with two counts of assault with intent to commit murder.