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VIDEO: Press conference after 9-year-old girl shot to death in Charlotte, NC. CMPD confirmed four people shot, one killed- a 9-year-old girl here on Fieldvale. 2 adlults and one other child expected to survive. Searching for shooter.

A 3-year-old boy was shot in the leg after getting caught in the middle of a shootout in Brooklyn in broad daylight today, police sources said. The child was playing with his mother in the courtyard of 383 Pulaski St. in Bedford-Stuyvesant around 4 p.m. when he was caught in the crossfire between two gunmen, cops said.

"Can I give you a little kiss, mommy, and can you give me a blessing?'' Those are the last words Rosa Flores heard from her 4-year-old son Enrique Mendujano as she sent him off to a baby-sitter. Hours later, the boy was killed by a shotgun blast when a family argument flared out of control. Flores, 26, wept as she testified Tuesday in the murder trial of Jesus Munoz Padilla. On the day of the murder, April 9, 2002, Flores said she gave her son the kiss he asked for and told him, "God bless you, my son.'' Flores said...