Feb 26, 2009 7:56 am US/Eastern
Police Search For Shooting Suspect Of 11-Year-Old
NYPD: No Arrest, But Shooter Was Inside Home With The Little Victim At The Time Of The Incident
Reporting
Lou Young
EAST NEW YORK (CBS) ―
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Police think they know who shot an 11-year-old girl in the chest inside a Brooklyn building on Feb. 25.
CBS
There were frantic moments in Brooklyn on Wednesday evening. An 11-year-old girl was gunned down while sitting at her home computer.
She's in the hospital and police are saying the bullets that hit her came from inside the house.
Detectives at Brooklyn's 7-5 Precinct house were interviewing the mother of the 11-year-old girl Wednesday night in connection with her shooting not because they think she did it, but because they think she might know who did.
The fifth grader was carried to an ambulance during the dinner hour on Wednesday, one of six children who live in the second floor apartment on Hendrix.
Crime scene investigators found multiple slugs in the place, although only one found a target we're told -- the quiet girl everyone knows as "Elia."
"The little girl is like family, you know? She plays with my sisters and they hang out, sleep over in the summer. It's hard. It's like your family, you know?" neighbor Darlene Miranda said.
"She's an average kid, like average 11-year-old … go to school, have fun with her friends, nothing more nothing less," neighbor Quinn Street said.
The shooter was standing in the hallway when he started firing blindly, but one of the bullets hit the girl seated at her computer. It went straight through her and into the machine.
Neighbors said they didn't hear the shots, but couldn't miss the desperate mother screaming for help.
"She was saying, 'Call 9-1-1 please, please help!'" neighbor Zean Thompson said.
The little girl has four sisters and a baby brother, and police said a number of other adults were in the apartment when it happened. The incident was only one of three shootings in the Brooklyn precinct Wednesday night that observers say is awash in guns.
"Our young folks gotta know that guns are designed to kill; they're not here for design, to be flamboyant or anything along that vein. They're weapons that are meant to destroy," community activist Anthony Herbert said.
Late Wednesday night the NYPD was narrowing in on a suspect in what is, thankfully, a weapons and assault case and not a murder.
While Brookdale Hospital wouldn't share the victim's condition, officials there did say she's expected to survive.
Please stay with CBS 2 HD and wcbstv.com for more on this developing story.
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