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?”
Yeah, maybe we can get lucky and someone will take the trash out quickly and save a bunch of Taxpayer money.
He’ll probably return to Gastonia in a week or so.
[[People are angry and have lost inhibitions.]]
agreed- and they have zero respect for anyone else, and it’s growing big time- even in little towns where it is being infiltrated by blm and antifa scum- I dont even recognize my town anymore-
[[And all of these occurrences are now being reported to be used to advance the Anti-2A agenda]]
Agreed-
forgot to mention- direct observation shows a massive increase in things like rioting, looting and burning etc as well- Here’s an article on that very thing
Doug Casey on Rising Crime, Legalized Shoplifting, and Other Disturbing Trends in US Cities
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4147151/posts
These types of anger and rage and criminal activity most definitely are rising rapidly nationwide- so i woudl safely say that it is happening more often- we never had unhinged rage like what we’ve been seeing in the past decade or so before-
courtesy of even more poverty driven by medical pot we now have a homeless camp at the library and a public open air toilet at the only park in town. The amount of domestic violence and under the influence driven crime is growing by the week in the police blotter. We also have had the first follow home gunpoint robbery in my memory, growing public exposure and people wandering on the roadways.
Soon enough one of the sorry bastards will be shot by a home owner. I just hope it is not by me.
And the left think that conditio a like that are utopia. The left are mentally deranged.
Wait... you mean it was ALREADY illegal for him to have a gun???
Maybe another law would have helped...
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