Posted on 08/20/2015 10:56:06 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
A 9-year-old girl was shot and killed Tuesday in Ferguson, Missouri, while she sat in bed doing her homework, her family says.
"I never in a million years thought that I'd be laying my daughter to rest," said James Bolden, 9-year-old Jamyla's father, KMOV reports.
Jamyla's 34-year-old mother was also shot in the leg, but she has since been released from the hospital and is expected to make a full recovery.
As of Wednesday night, police had no suspect in the attack, though investigators believe that the shots were fired from close range into the home, which is one block from West Florissant Ave., the center for protests in Ferguson after Michael Brown's shooting death a year ago at the hands of Officer Darren Wilson....
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I’m sorry...If I lived in Ferguson, I’d move to a safer place — like Chicago or Baltimore... :-)
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