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?”
As Chris Plante might say, “Another Democrat on a rampage”.
Sounds like we have a serious mental derangement problem.
sounds like a racist attack to me, but I’m sure the Media-Dem Party octopus apparatus won’t see it that way.
It is.
i would like to see some stats
happening more often
or being reported more often
Mayor of Gastonia is black.
Black guy shooting at white people? I’m shocked!! shocked I say!!
I guess the far left “mainstream media” has started a real copycat shooting war as an election issue for their massahs down at the Dung Beetle Party. If you don’t like something somebody does, shoot them. That’s what the “media” has taught these retarded and ignorant bass turds living in our country. They copycat everything they see on TV, in the movies and on TikTok. Americans! Monkey See Monkey Do Champions of the World.
Amazing how that ‘little detail’ gets left out of the story...
A picture is worth a thousand words! A racist/democrat with a gun.
feral animal.
What’s happening today is a continuation of the Nazi thing.
The CIA and Project Paperclip in the 1940’s brought Nazi social engineers and scientists to this country.
They’ve been doing the same thing here, in stealth form.
This is what we’re seeing.
But it is being countered, more than they know.
Head on over to Democratic Underground. You’ll be more in line there with this thinking. Red Flag laws are unconstitutional and violate Due Process.
I am not going to say more to avoid getting personal over your post!
We don’t need another law; violent menaces can already have their weapons seized. They probably ignored his assault and battery on racial grounds.
Moreover, the potential for authorities to abuse red flag laws makes them contraindicative.I call police and claim that Ikeon threatened me. Ikeon is a Republican. Guns gone!
A thousand cuts the slow bleed is fitting.
> This guy should have had his firearms taken away from him when he beat his girlfriend last year. !!! <
No. The guy should be doing seven years in prison for beating his girlfriend last year.
2A issues aside, I don’t know how you could take his guns anyway. It’s not like he’d surrender them to a cop standing at his front door. But let’s say the cops search his house, and finds them all.
Then what? Then the guy puts a couple of hundred bucks in his pocket, and go buys a gun on some street corner.
Just like with alcohol during Prohibition. If you want a drink, you can find a drink.
thanx. figures. so much for systemic racism...
SPJNK.
You dissin’ me? YOU DISSIN’ ME?
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