SAN FRANCISCO -- Eleven-year-old Linda Ngo remembers every detail of the night a stray bullet nearly killed her.

She remembers hearing gunshots and feeling a sharp sting on her chest as she sat in a bedroom Friday night in her uncle's Western Addition apartment. She remembers the police coming in, and the ambulance rushing her to San Francisco General Hospital.

She remembers how her mother cried when she saw her, and how she couldn't help but cry then, too.

"I just hoped that I would be OK," she said Wednesday.

Linda is back in her family's San Francisco home, resting and receiving visits from friends. She was released Tuesday from San Francisco General, where doctors told her parents she was a very lucky girl - she was shot high enough on her chest that the bullet missed her heart.

She's set to start the sixth grade when school resumes next month.

The bullet that hit Linda came from a shooting outside on the 1100 block of Laguna Street that investigators believe was gang-related.

Police arrested Lazarus Thomas, 19, of Daly City and Caprice Shadon Mitchell, 20, of San Francisco. However, prosecutors decided Wednesday not to file charges against the two, saying further investigation is needed.

Linda hadn't heard the news. Whoever shot her, she said, "I want them to not find me."

Her father, Ha Luong, said he knows the bullet pierced more than just her chest.

"My daughter is scared," he said.

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