A man is wanted in North Carolina after shooting a six-year-old girl and her parents Tuesday night. He would have got carried away after the intrusion of a basketball in his garden.
“Why did you shoot my dad and me?” Kinsley, 6, asked the 24-year-old man who injured her and her parents, local North Carolina TV reported. WSOC-TV. On Tuesday, while children were playing basketball in Gaston County, a ball rolled into Robert Singletary’s backyard. A common and banal event which nevertheless provoked the black anger of the young man, making him leave his house with a weapon.
He then shot Kinsley and his parents repeatedly. Hit in the back, the father of the family is still in serious condition. For her part, the little girl had to be stitched up at the level of the cheek, while her mother was only grazed by a bullet.
Another man was reportedly targeted in the shooting but was not hit, local media reported. US police are still looking for Robert Singletary, who was accused in December of hitting his 21-year-old girlfriend with a hammer.
An investigation has been opened for attempted first degree murder, two counts of assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill causing serious injury and possession of a firearm by a felon.
A confusing series
This news story is part of a tragic series of similar events in the United States, where guns are ravaging: a black teenager was seriously injured by gunshot last week after knocking on the wrong door of a home in the state of Missouri. The suspect pleaded not guilty on Wednesday, according to US media.
In New York State, a 20-year-old woman was killed on Saturday after being shot after driving by mistake into the driveway of a private home.
A man opened fire on cheerleaders in Texas on Wednesday after one of them tried to open the door of her car, which she mistook for her own vehicle.
