A gifted musician who was shot in the head during the "Dark Knight" massacre last week will likely not sustain any major brain damage thanks to a birth defect that her pastor called "a miracle".

The shotgun pellet reportedly entered her brain at the exact point of a barely-detectable defect – a tiny vein of fluid extending through her skull that only a CAT scan could catch.

Doctors said the bullet traveled through the vein, just missing the vital parts of Anderson's brain.

(READ the story in the NY Daily News)