KANSAS CITY, MO - Briana Bonds literally came within a hair's breadth of dying late Wednesday night after her tightly-woven wig somehow stopped a speeding bullet.

Bonds, 20, was in her car in a convenience store parking lot when a man flagged her down and told her that her ex-boyfriend still loved her.

She replied, "Well I don't love him," then Banks says she heard gunshots as her ex-boyfriend, Juan Kemp, allegedly opened fire from behind the second vehicle.

"They was going past me, zoom, zoom and the window was shattering," said Bonds. "Oh Lord! I am alive! Am I dead? What's going on? I'm not every 21 yet!"

Bonds said that her head snapped forward a little when the bullet hit her, and that there was a small amount of blood, but that she never lost consciousness.

"In the back of my head, it was like bam!" said Bonds. "That's how it felt. It was hot, you could feel it."

Bonds sped away from the store to another parking lot where she called police, who found the 40-caliber slug tangled in her hair. Police say that her weave prevented it from penetrating her skull.

"One of (the bullets) hit the back of my head. Luckily, it didn't go through because the back of my wig," said Bonds. "My wig had stopped it. It was hanging in my hair. It was about this small scrunched up."

"I've been wearing it for years. I've invested a lot of money into this weave," said Bonds. "It saved my life. It saved my life."

Police arrested both Kemp and the other man in the car, and the pair now face charges for the shooting incident in Jackson County Court.