[Ammi]

..there isn't a lot of information yet about this that I can find but....


FERGUSON, Mo. – Ferguson police are searching for clues about the killing of a 9-year-old girl who was shot when someone fired into a home where she was doing homework on her mother's bad.

No arrests have been made in Tuesday night's fatal shooting of Jamyla Bolden and police don't yet know if the home was targeted or the shots were random, Ferguson Sgt. Dominica Fuller said Thursday. Jamyla's 34-year-old mother was struck in the leg and treated at a hospital.

"You have a 9-year-old child on her mother's bed doing homework and a bullet strikes her," Fuller said. "Our concern is to get this person off the street."

The shooting happened a couple of blocks from the site where 18-year-old Michael Brown was fatally shot by a police officer on Aug. 9, 2014, sparking sometimes violent protests.

Fuller, herself the mother of a 9-year-old, was among the first officers at the home after the shooting, which was reported just after 9:30 p.m. Tuesday. She said police did all they could to help the child, to no avail.

"As a mother I was hurt," she said. "I showed emotion and I cried and said a prayer for her and my heart is still broken."


Police don't know if the shots were fired from a car or from someone standing outside the home. Fuller would offer no details about where the bullets entered or how many were fired, saying she didn't want to hinder the investigation.

The small ranch home sits on a street that intersects with Canfield Drive, where Brown was killed. A house next door to where Jamyla was shot has a sign in the yard that reads, "We Must Stop Killing Each Other." Similar signs have sprung up around St. Louis and northern St. Louis County, known locally as North County, during a year when homicides are on the rise in the region.

"The simple fact is our kids are dying at a young age at a fast pace and we as a community must come together," Fuller said.

Jamyla was a fourth-grader at Koch Elementary School. A school district spokeswoman described her as sweet and soft-spoken.



http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/08/20...mework-inside/

[arista]

"Police don't yet know if the home was
targeted or the shots were random"

Yes its Tragic
Guns going off
stray bullets - I assume

[Mystic Mock]

It could've been gang related, and one of the bullets ricocheted and sadly hit the girl.

[Niamh.]

omg poor kid, that's awful

[Jay.]

surprised it wasn't the police

awful though

[kirklancaster]

What an out-of-control fukced up world. My heart goes out to her family poor kid.

[lostalex]

Originally Posted by Jay.

surprised it wasn't the police

awful though

it's not surprising at all. this community has a history of violence, that;'s why the cops are so on edge there to begin with.

[Nedusa]

Was this the Police again, did she resist arrest and was in possession of an offensive Teddy Bear....

As Kirk says ... What sad fcuked up World...!!

[Mokka]

Originally Posted by kirklancaster

What an out-of-control fukced up world. My heart goes out to her family poor kid.

[2]

As a mom... I can't even...

[Lostie!]

Oh, that's awful.

[Crimson Dynamo]

Gun Violence Archive 2015 Toll of Gun Violence

Total Number of Incidents 32,385
Number of Deaths 8,288
Number of Injuries 16,854
Number of Children (age 0-11) Killed/Injured1 473
Number of Teens (age 12-17) Killed/Injured1 1,642
Mass Shooting 210
Officer Involved Shooting 2,801
Home Invasion 1,437
Defensive Use 769
Accidental Shooting 1,200

http://www.gunviolencearchive.org/

[Alf]

Why are the Black Lives Matter not out in uproar over this?

Because it was a black on black crime and Black lives matter are only interested in going after white people.