On a warm Wednesday afternoon in November, Kyra Stubbs walks out of the Walmart in northeast Dallas after about 30 minutes of shopping. She is giddy. She is wearing her favorite light blue jeans. She feels beautiful. She even steals a couple of glances at herself in the car windows as she walks past them.
The next moment, she turns and there he is, pointing a gun at her. Then, he starts shooting.
For Stubbs, that Wednesday started out as a good one. She woke up in the morning and put on her favorite clothes and went to see a client. And then, everything changed.
“Why?” she screamed, as he kept shooting. Not a single word came out of his mouth, she said.
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Stubbs, 43, a mother of three who works as a senior caregiver, was done with work a couple of hours early that day, she said. On the drive back home, she wanted to pick up some groceries from the Walmart on Forest Lane.
Kori Clark (right), 16, listens intently as her mother, Kyra Stubbs, retells the story of being shot at a Dallas Walmart in November. They are photographed at Kyra’s Dallas apartment on Dec. 29, 2025.
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At around 3:30 p.m. Nov. 19, two women were shot and injured when police officers arrived at the parking lot responding to the incident. The shooter who took his own life was later identified as 23-year-old Christion Bingham.
Stubbs was one of the wounded. The other woman was treated for minor injuries.
Multiple surgeries, several trips to the hospital, a substantial medical bill which was paid out of pocket as she did not have health insurance and countless nightmares later, Stubbs is facing a long year of recovery.
“It’s exhausting, I’m exhausted,” she said. “But I’m getting through it.”
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When the man first approached her that afternoon in November, she thought he was trying to rob her, so she pushed her cart away, but then the shots started.
Stubbs was shot seven times on that day by a man she has never met, she said. She recalled trying to smack the gun out of his hands, instinctively, but he continued shooting. She took four gunshots to her right arm alone.
“I began to run, and he just kept shooting at me,” Stubbs said. “I fell to the ground and he chased me. He shot me again.”
She prayed to God. The next moment, the shooter walked up to her, shot her one last time and walked away, she said.
As she laid on the ground, bystanders stood there frozen before one woman called 911, she said. And then another person stepped forward, asking her if they could call someone.
“I was asking for help, and people were standing around just looking,” Stubbs said.
Stubbs remained calm, she said, doing all the things she needed to do to survive before the paramedics arrived — keeping her eyes open, breathing, asking people to try to stop the bleeding.
She woke up in the hospital’s intensive care unit three days later.
“I couldn’t remember exactly what had happened, because everything felt like a dream,” she said.
Stubbs had injuries in her left and right arms and her stomach. She’s already had several surgeries. She has severe nerve damage in her arms and can barely move them. It has been a long month of recovery for her, she said.
She said she wonders if she was just in the wrong place at the wrong time. She did not know this person and yet, she was being hunted down in the middle of the day in a public parking lot.
“I don’t know why he chose me. I have no idea,” she said.
She did recall looking at him and seeing the anger on his face.
“It was almost like he had found the person that he had been looking for this entire time and he was going to kill her,” she said.
Shooting survivor Kyra Stubbs relies on a combination of medications in her recovery from a close-range shooting last month. She is photographed at her Dallas apartment, Dec. 29, 2025.
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The incident raised Stubbs’ concerns about safety in that area. She said she frequently visits that particular Walmart during the week and has never seen security guards in the parking lot. When the incident happened, she said, there was nobody out there.
Cole McNiel from Anderson Injury Lawyers, Stubbs’ attorney, said they are working to file a lawsuit against Walmart and any security company that it may have contracted with. They are in the process of gathering information, he said.
“It was a preventable act of violence,” McNiel said, adding that the companies involved have a duty “to make sure that their customers go home safely to their family.”
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The lawsuit is on track to be filed in January and McNiel said they are going to seek financial compensation for the damages which include pain and suffering, emotional distress, lost wages and past and future medical bills.
“We will review the complaint once served and will respond appropriately in court,” Walmart said in a statement. “The safety of our customers and associates is a top priority.”
Stubbs, who currently lives in the Lake Highlands area, is moving to a new apartment away from this place, she said. She said she never quite felt safe in the area.
“I don’t feel safe in my home at this point,” she said. “I don’t feel safe in my own head.”
Kylie Scott, Stubbs’ daughter, said she has made a number of phone calls and made several attempts to secure some funds to help with paying the bills, but it has been difficult to get timely support.
“Right now we are spending our money,” she said. “We are just spending funds we don’t have.”
Since shooting survivor Kyra Stubbs (right) can’t use her nerve-damaged arms, her 22-year-old daughter, Kylie Scott, fixes her hair, Dec. 29, 2025.
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Scott said her mother received the itinerary for a new job that she was scheduled to start in December on the day she was shot. Stubbs was unable to start working, but the company told her they would hold the position for her until she is able to return.
Now, as she heals little by little, Stubbs said she is looking forward to fully recovering from this horrific incident — physically and mentally. Her family has set up a GoFundMe page to support her recovery until she can get back to work.
“I would love to go back to the way that I was,” she said. “I just had a zest for life, and I want to get back there.”