Posted on 04/20/2023 7:29:40 AM PDT by Red Badger
A 6-year-old girl and her parents were injured by gunfire on Tuesday night after a basketball rolled down a residential street in North Carolina and into a man’s yard, enraging him, neighbors told WSOC-TV.
Witnesses told the station that the gunman ran up and down the street, firing until he ran out of bullets.
The Gaston County Police Department said Wednesday they were still hunting for the alleged gunman, identified as Robert Louis Singletary, a 24-year-old man described as “armed and dangerous.”
The young girl, Kinsley White, was hospitalized after being seriously wounded. She was released overnight, family members told Queen City News. Her father, William White, remains in the hospital.
“He came out with a gun, he started shooting,” Kinsley explained to the outlet. “Hope my daddy is OK.”
Her mother, Ashley Hilderbrand, was grazed by a bullet and treated at the scene. She told WSOC that she heard the gunman make a threat to her husband and daughter: “I’m going to kill you.”
He then chased them, firing, while William White tried to shield Kinsley, Hilderbrand said.
A fourth person was shot at but not injured, police said.
Singletary faces multiple charges, including four counts of first-degree attempted murder, two counts of assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill, and one count of possession of a firearm by a felon.
In December, he was arrested for assaulting his girlfriend with what police described as a “mini sledgehammer.” He allegedly prevented her from leaving his apartment until she cleaned up the evidence of the assault. The woman was able to escape roughly two hours later.
Neighbors told WSOC that Singletary was new to the area and often got angry with children in the neighborhood.
Citing the ongoing investigation, a spokesperson for the Gaston County Police Department declined to confirm details of the case.
“I want to say to the people of Gaston County—this sort of violence will not stand,” Stephen Zill, the department’s chief, said in a statement posted to social media on Wednesday afternoon.
Police have partnered with the U.S. Marshals Regional Fugitive Task Force to find Singletary, Zill said.
“We don’t even know the man,” Kinsley told WSOC, appearing on camera with stitches in her cheek. “Why did you shoot my daddy and me? Why did you shoot a kid’s dad?”
I’ll be keeping that family in my prayers.
This guy needs to be put back in his cage.
I think the world hit a tipping point early this year. Evil is running rampant.
We had a-holes in my neighborhood who would keep your ball if it went into their yard.
But even those jerks wouldn’t shoot a kid.
Where is Carriage Hill and his acronym?
Com'on , say it!!!!
SAY IT!
red flag laws are bulls#1t and this guy has a God given right to own a gun.
This guy should have had his firearms taken away from him when he beat his girlfriend last year. !!!
Was just thinking the same. People are so much more angry lately that it’s risky just going to a store these days- never know who is gonna get “offended” and react Violently
Lock him up. We don’t need people like that.
Is this a situation with a black man who shot a little white girl?
The story will disappear from the media very quickly.
Since it cannot be used to push a racism narrative this story will go away.
Gaston County? Really?
I’m surprised every other, maybe even 2 out of 3 neighbors on that street didn’t draw down on the guy and end his life.
I grew up in the county next to Gaston. I learned early...you did not go to Gaston County and mess around.
Blacks again?
I wish liberal democrats would stop shooting people.
We need gun control for liberal democrats
But... was his gun even legal? There is a 50/50 chance he was not legally able to own a gun.
Germany, 1930s: Propaganda painted Jews as evil, and so worthy of attack.
United States, today: Propaganda paints whites as evil, and so worthy of attack.
The only real difference is that the Nazis knew exactly what they were doing.
But many of today’s starry-eyed wokesters don’t know what they are doing. They are just stupid, unthinking pawns in a larger game. That doesn’t make them any less dangerous, of course.
At one time, Gastonia had one of the highest per-capita murder rates in the state. Then Winston-Salem said “hold my cig”.
Another man who should be shot before sundown.
You are clueless. Red flag laws will be expanded to prevent gun ownership by people who take anti anxiety medicine or are a ‘threat’ to the government due to a ‘hateful’ post on Free Republic.
Big enough for you democrat?
Red flag laws would have no more prevented this then domestic violence laws prevented him from beating his girl friend.
I know you only have one function brain cell but whack it with a hammer to see if you can get it firing.
One thing would have stopped it and that would be locking him up. But you do not want to do that do, you you freaking coward!
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.