‘Everyone thought I was dead’: Gainesville woman shot in the back of head at 9-year-old daughter’s birthday party - Gainesville Times

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‘Everyone thought I was dead’: Gainesville woman shot in the back of head at 9-year-old daughter’s birthday party

Janet Villanueva was shot at this home at Gilleland Ext. on July 16 during her daughter's birthday party. - photo by Scott Rogers

07252023 SHOOTING 1.jpg — Janet Villanueva was shot at this home at Gilleland Ext. on July 16 during her daughter's birthday party. - photo by Scott Rogers

A Gainesville woman who was shot in the back of the head in the driveway of her mobile home last week says she was throwing a birthday party for her 9-year-old daughter when a group of people she didn’t know showed up and started causing trouble.