a 3-year-old, has been victimized by gun violence, a few hours after the stroke of midnight.
The little girl’s uncle spoke to WREG said she was hit in the neck adding what happened could have been avoided. Minutes before midnight, Jamayl Morris received a phone call from his sister, one that he will not soon forget.
“I was at the house, so when I got the call I came out and when I got here, it was a real big crime scene,” Morris said.
Caught in the chaos, was his 3-year-old niece Ayanna Morris.
He said Ayanna was hit, when bullets struck the family’s vehicle before going through their Vernon Avenue home.
One of at least three rounds hit Ayanna while she was inside her own bedroom, playing on her tablet.
Ayanna’s mother found her baby girl with a bullet wound that entered through the left side of her neck and her uncle told us that bullet is lodged in her right ear.
Her uncle is understandably mad. He told us his niece has severe bleeding in the brain.
One of the most pressing questions still unanswered is whether this was a targeted attack, or the result of celebratory gunfire.
“I’m still trying to sort things out myself, because I don’t know if it was from New Year,” Morris told us. “With the way the bullets came towards the house, it was like somebody was shooting towards the house intentionally.”
Regardless of how it happened, Jamayl said it shouldn’t have.
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