A brave survivor cheated death after suffering several gunshot wounds from North Carolina’s Bonnie and Clyde — and reportedly used her nose to desperately dial her boyfriend for help during the couple’s carnage.
Autumn Setola, 20, was left clinging to life in an area hospital on Tuesday — after gun-toting suspects Cory Armstrong, 29, and 26-year-old Camryn Moore, 26, opened fire inside their Gastonia home Thursday morning.
“She is independent. She is strong. … She’s a very kind girl,” Monica Shelley-Henson, mother of Setola’s boyfriend, Jacob “Jake” Henson, told The Post Tuesday.
“She’s definitely someone who will meet you where you are.”
The alleged killer couple, who also lived at the 2661 Forbes Road home, gunned down two victims and wounded Setola and her stepbrother, Keaton, in a shooting spree that stunned neighbors of the suburban North Carolina community — located just a few miles from the South Carolina border.
Setola was shot twice when the bloodshed erupted and wasn’t able to use her arms, but still miraculously dialed her boyfriend using the tip of her nose.
“She said, ‘I’ve been shot by Cory,’” Henson told WCNC of the chilling moment he heard his girlfriend’s desperate voice. “I ran. I had no shoes on. My shirt is backwards.”
Shelley-Henson confirmed that Setola was shot a second time and “couldn’t move her arms and didn’t understand why, but she managed to get her phone and call Jake by using her nose.”
A panicked Henson bolted out his front door barefoot, jumped into his car and frantically sped toward the Forbes Road house, phoning 911 along the way.
“[I was] driving over there and calling 911 to let them know,” he said.
Not knowing what he was heading toward, Henson was overwhelmed by fear and uncertainty, he told the outlet.
“I was freaking out. Please let her live. I didn’t know how bad it was,” he said, according to WCNC.
Paramedics were already swarming by the time Henson reached the house .
Setola and her stepbrother were rushed to CaroMont Regional Medical Center with life-threatening injuries, officials said Friday.
She remains in critical but stable condition where she has been undergoing surgeries daily, according to Shelley-Henson.
Victoria “Heather” Moore, 50, and Josiah Bumgardner, 38 — the mother and uncle of Camryn Moore — were also found dead at the scene by emergency responders, according to police.
Josiah had previously transitioned from a female, Megan, and had been identifying as male, according to the family.
The alleged killer couple then tore off across state lines into southern Ohio, triggering a manhunt that ended Friday when both died of gunshot wounds in a suspected double-suicide following a wild police chase.
North Carolina authorities told The Post that both deaths are being investigated as a possible double-suicide, though Ohio State Highway Patrol has not yet confirmed the finding.
It remains unclear what sparked the pair’s alleged bloody rampage.
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