2023-04-21 04:40:21
A North Carolina man accused of shooting and wounding a 6-year-old girl and her parents after the children went to retrieve a basketball that had rolled across their front yard was arrested in Florida Thursday afternoon, the media said. authorities.
The violence was the latest in a series of recent shootings sparked by seemingly trivial circumstances.
Robert Louis Singletary, 24, was arrested in the Tampa area by Hillsborough County deputies, according to online jail records. He was being held without bail on a fugitive warrant. He is scheduled to appear before the. cut off on friday.
Gaston County Police Chief Stephen Zill said at a news conference Wednesday that his department and the Charlotte Sheriff’s Service Regional Fugitive Task Force.
Singletary had been out on bail in a December attack in which authorities say he assaulted a woman with a hammer. He was wanted in Tuesday’s shootings on four counts of attempted first-degree murder, two counts of assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill causing serious injury and one count of felony possession of a firearm.
Zill declined to say what prompted the attack, explaining that the investigation was ongoing.
However, neighbor Jonathan Robertson said the attack happened after some neighborhood kids went to retrieve a basketball that had rolled into Singletary’s yard. He said Singletary, who had yelled at the children on several occasions since moving into the neighborhood, entered his house, came out again with a gun and began shooting as the parents desperately tried to get their children to safety. except.
“As soon as I saw him shoot out, I yelled for everyone to get down and get in,” Robertson said.
A 6-year-old girl, Kinsley White, was grazed by a bullet in the left cheek and was treated at a hospital and released, she and her family said. Her father, Jamie White, who had rushed to her aid, was shot in the back. He remained hospitalized Thursday with serious injuries, including liver damage, according to Kinsley’s grandfather and neighbor, Carl Hilderbrand. The girl’s mother, Ashley Hilderbrand, received a scratch on her elbow from her. Authorities say Singletary also shot another man, but missed.
“It was very scary,” Ashley Hilderbrand said Wednesday. “My daughter came home last night. She only had a bullet fragment in her cheek.”
It is the latest in a series of recent US shootings that occurred for seemingly trivial reasons, including the shooting of a black honors student in Missouri who went to the wrong address to pick up his younger siblings, the killing of a woman who was in a car pulled into the wrong driveway in upstate New York; and the injuries of two Texas cheerleaders after one apparently mistakenly got into a car she thought was hers.
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