The child is 9 years old. All she saw was the color of a gun. Didn't know the make or model or bullet specifications. She's a little girl in a terrifying position. What is so very difficult to understand about that?
You're missing my point. MOST people can't ID a handgun and it's not that I find it suspicious that the girl couldn't ID the make.
I just find it strange to have "dark colored handgun" reported, instead of "handgun."...again, having seen or heard thousands of crime stories with a suspect at large who used a handgun, not a one said "dark colored handgun"...it was always "handgun" if there were no specifics on the gun reported.