2023-04-22 01:39:46
Robert Louis Singletary, suspected of shooting a 6-year-old girl in the face.
City of Gastonia Police Department / AP
A man was arrested this Thursday in the US for allegedly shooting a 6-year-old girl and her parents following the little girl entered her yard to look for a ball. This is the latest in a series of violent acts caused by seemingly trivial circumstances.
According to reports collected by AP, the event occurred Tuesday night in the town of Gastonia, North Carolina, when several children tried to recover a basketball that had rolled into the yard of the suspect, identified as Robert Louis Singletary, 24. years, who rebuked them. Moments later, the subject entered his house and came out with a revolver, with which he began to shoot while the parents desperately tried to get their children to safety.
As a result of the shooting, six-year-old Kinsley White was grazed by a bullet in the left cheek and had to be taken to a hospital, where she was later released. Her father, Jamie White, who had rushed to her aid, was shot in the back and remains hospitalized with serious injuries, while her mother, Ashley Hilderbrand, was grazed by a shell on her elbow. . Authorities said the shooter also shot another man, but missed.
Singletary, who fled, was arrested two days later in the Tampa, Florida area. He is charged with 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. In addition, he has a criminal record and had been out on bail following assaulting a woman with a hammer last December.
Kinsley White, 6, showing his injuries following the shooting in Gastonia, North Carolina.
The Gaston Gazette / AP
hello from attacks
In the last week there have been several cases in the North American country in which young people who made an apparent mistake were shot. This Tuesday, two cheerleaders were shot in a Texas parking lot following one of them tried to open the door of a vehicle thinking it was hers.
Last Thursday, Ralph Yarl, a 16-year-old black teenager, was shot in the head and another in the arm following showing up at the wrong house in Kansas City, Missouri to pick up his younger siblings.
Two days later, the death of a 20-year-old woman who was looking for a friend’s house in upstate New York was reported, but she arrived at the wrong address and was shot by the owner.
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