A pastor in Houston, Texas thought she was gone for good when a man started shooting outside a beauty salon in Minneapolis where she was having her hair done last week.

One of the bullets grazed the back of the head of Pastor Yolande Herron-Palmore, but she survived after the bullet that should have hit her straight in the head inexplicably veered off, still nicking an artery, Charisma News reports.

"They can't explain why the bullet decided to veer curve off," her son Joe was quoted as saying in a report filed by abc13.com. "The bullet blew her out of her seat and onto the floor where she lay flat. She said she thought she was gone for a minute until she was able to lift her head and she told herself, 'Wow,' that she was still here."

KSTP.com in Minneapolis said the gunman fired several shots at around 3 p.m. Thursday, adding that the shots were intended for someone else and not the pastor.

Writing in his Facebook page, Joe says his mother mother, aunt, and grandmother were all getting their hair done on Thursday last week in North Minneapolis, Minnesota, their home, when a shootout occurred right outside of the beauty salon. He says 15 shots were fired, some of them coming through the window of the shop. "One of the bullets struck my mother in the head ... People at the shop immediately begin praying for her and helping her," he writes.

Palmore was released from the hospital on Friday.

"I know the path my mom has walked, her God path and her path as a pastor and teacher," Joe says. "And just knowing how anointed she is, there's no other reason my mom is still here but because of God and him putting his hands of protection around her."

"She knows she's not supposed to be here," Joe says. "This is the Lord's doing. And she feels like there's more for her story now. She has a definite story to tell now. She thought she had a testimony before. But she really has one now."

Palmore is the founder of a Christian counselling ministry called Restored Peace Ministries. She was an associate pastor at Windsor Village United Methodist Church for nine years and co-founded Kainos Community Church in 1997.