Woman Shot in Takeoff’s Killing Says It Was a ‘Miracle’ She Survived
Sydney Leday, 24, was hit in the back of the head in the shooting which left the Migos rapper dead.

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A young woman who was shot in the head during the attack which killed Migos rapper Takeoff said “it was a miracle” that she survived. Sydney Leday, 24, was at the Houston party in the early hours of Nov. 1 last year when an argument broke out and escalated to gunfire which fatally wounded 28-year-old Takeoff and hit Leday as she ran for her life. “I felt the sting in the back of my head,” Leday told KHOU. “I felt myself falling.” Leday says the person she was with picked her up and they were able to get to a car to drive her to hospital. “It was like a scary movie, really. Ironically it was Halloween night. I had on a nun outfit. I had blood all over me.” Leday spent around a week in hospital after being in a coma. “I was just grateful that I did [survive] because the place that it hit in my head… I just feel like it was a miracle.”
KHOU 11 EXCLUSIVE | Sydney Leday, 24, was caught in the crossfire the night Migos rapper #TakeOff was killed in Houston. She's talking for the first time about that night to @GraceWhiteKHOU
— KHOU 11 News Houston (@KHOU) January 19, 2023
See her extended interview on KHOU 11+ on Roku and FireTVhttps://t.co/ylrV1lj5ju pic.twitter.com/Jyxz18kL9C
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