He shot his girlfriend in the head, but he didn't tell her. She knew until she went to the doctor

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Jerrontae Cain

Atlanta (CNN) - A woman from Georgia and her ex-boyfriend argued in their car two years ago when the driver's side window broke and she passed out.

When he came back to her, she was in his car, not his own, and they went to the boyfriend's mother's house because she had a head injury.

She thought she had cut herself with a glass. But his ex-boyfriend, Jerrontae Cain, had a secret: he had shot him.

On Thursday, a judge sentenced Cain, 39, to 25 years in prison for several crimes, including aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and possession of a firearm by a criminal. Cain had been convicted of serious sexual assault in 2010.

For a month after the shooting in 2017, the woman stayed at Cain's mother's house, suffering severe headaches, dealing with memory loss and having problems when trying to speak, according to an office press release from the Fulton County District Attorney. In June of that year, a friend took her to the hospital.

The doctors at the Atlanta Medical Center found a bullet in the back of his skull, which he would have to stay there because trying to get it out could kill her, the prosecutor's office said.

The hospital staff alerted the investigators and the woman told them that she did not remember receiving a shot, she only remembered that the window had broken.

Cain told police that the woman, now 42, had crashed her car into a tree. But detectives found the crime scene inconsistent with their explanation, according to the prosecutor's office.

Authorities issued an arrest warrant, but Cain was not captured until January 2019, more than a year later, when police appeared at a house in College Park, just south of Atlanta. He hid in an attic during a two-hour showdown until he gave up, the prosecutor's office said.

Cain was also sentenced to five years probation to be served after his prison sentence.