NATCHEZ — As Iris Green left a friend’s house on Beaumont Street Wednesday she witnessed a shooting — a shooting that became too personal.

Green, who was standing on top of a hill, saw two men running around a corner of Beaumont Street and Woodlawn Avenue with one shooting at the other.

“Some of the bullets came up Beaumont and one hit me,” she said.

Green did not even realize she had been hit until she saw the blood, she said.

“When I first was hit, I didn’t even know I was hit,” she said. “I just felt like a burning sensation and then it started stinging.”

The bullet went into Green’s side and came out of her back. She was treated and released from Natchez Regional Hospital. She said that she was very surprised and shocked, but that she felt lucky not to have sustained any major injuries.

“God was with me,” she said.

Green was taken to the hospital by her sister, Cynthia Green.

About the same time Lorenzo Green, 24, 111 Red Bud Lane, was brought to Natchez Regional Hospital but was later transferred to University Medical Center in Jackson, where he is in stable condition.

Lorenzo Green had been hit twice in the upper body according to Natchez Police Chief Mike Mullins.

The police suspected Ricardo Matthews, 19, 14 Prentiss St., in the shooting, and within an hour he had turned himself in, Mullins said.

Matthews and Lorenzo Green knew each other, Mullins said.

“This has been an ongoing dispute for several weeks,” he said.

Matthews has been charged with two counts of aggravated assault and no bond has been set. He will be arraigned today, Mullins said.

The weapon has not been recovered.