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?”
OK, Karen. Domestic violence charges are grounds for removal. Red flag laws don’t apply. They’re for pre-crime. Now run back to sunny California with the other gun grabbers.
What a maniac!
Neighbors should burn his house down and shoot any survivors trying to get out.
Robert Louis Singletary, a 24 years old...new to the area and often got angry with children in the neighborhood.
Democrats have really ratcheted up the level of rage across the USA.
Maybe the ball dissed his award-winning petunias.
I presume that’s a photo of the shooter?
In may mind’s eye, I saw a raging young white man doing the shooting. I didn’t consider the POC possibility.
Red flag laws are BS
This man was a felon and wasn’t legally allowed to possess a firearm. If the government isn’t going to enforce that law (and they rarely do) what makes you think more laws would do the trick?
Observation shows that it is happening much more often. People are raging here days unlike they used to. Growing up we knew of a couple of hotheads that would erupt over asinine crap, but these days there are far more folks like that- and those that rage have no moral compunctions about talking vile and loud when co fronted - a lot more people simply have no respect for others- that is a fact.
Somewhere right now, there is a “social justice judgey wudgey” who just can’t wait to put this human debris on “probation” until he finally kills somebody in an effort to raise the Dung Beetle Party’s body count. Killing babies is no longer enough for the RATS, any dead body gives the RATs cause to celebrate these days.
He was a felon. Felons are not allowed to own a gun. He did not get his gun legally, therefore a red flag law would not be applicable to him. He should’ve been in prison for his previous torturous behavior.
Praying for this family having to deal with such a unstable so called neighbor. I suppose that the Mother, Father, and little girl will be charged, I mean that’s the way of our society anymore. All because a basketball rolled into a person’s yard.
Your comparison is apt, but I think you are wrong about how the Nazis operated vis-a-vis how the Democrats are operating. The Nazis got 38% of the vote in the 1932 elections. They were masters at manipulating people who did not join the party. Many ordinary non-Nazi Germans were used by the Nazis to accomplish their goals, the same way the Democrats today use our useful idiots to accomplish theirs. It is absolutely the same and, in both cases, the goal is absolute power.
Praying for this family having to deal with such a unstable so called neighbor. I suppose that the Mother, Father, and little girl will be charged, I mean that’s the way of our society anymore. All because a basketball rolled into a person’s yard. After seeing a picture of the guy that pulled a gun I know for sure that the ones to be charged will be the Mother, Dad, and young girl.
“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.”
I agree whole heartedly, just think seat belt laws and what happened with them.
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.
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How can someone be seriously wounded yet released from the hospital overnight? Just like that boy who knocked on the wrong door and was shot by that crazy 84-year-old man. He was seriously wounded also. Yeah, it was released the next day.
Last I heard that boy who was shot by that crazy old homeowner is now a multi millionaire. Thanks to go fundme. I wonder how many millions of dollars this little white girl is going to get after being shot by a black man?
/sarc
There’s a general insanity sweeping over the world. Soros, Schwab, and the rest of the globalist devils have done a fine job. The next ‘pandemic’ will certainly finish us off. Either that, or total nuclear war.
The Lord cannot return soon enough.
If only there had been a law prohibiting felons from possessing firearms.
If only there had been a law that would have been able to imprison a man who beat his girlfriend, illegally detained her, and forced her to destroy evidence of the beating.
See post# 5.
And down the memory hole it goes!
Red flag lawS
S are bs THIS FU SHOULD HAV BEEN PUT BACk in his cage & had the damn doorwelded shut!
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