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Jul 6, 2009 1:51 pm US/Eastern

10-Year-Old NJ Girl Shot In Stomach

IRVINGTON, N.J. (CBS) ―

Click to enlarge 1 of 1: Police investigate a shooting in Irvington.
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Police were searching for the gunman who shot a 10-year-old girl in the stomach in New Jersey on Sunday.

Qualyah Davis was just sitting on the front porch of her family's Irvington home at 3 p.m. when a man got out of a car and sprayed the area with gunfire.

"I was in the back room, watching TV and it was just, 'pop, pop, pop, pop,' like that, and I'm like [what's that?] Somebody is shooting out here," said neighbor Antonio Biera.

Between 10 and 20 shots were fired, according to people who live on the block, and one of them hit Davis in the stomach.

The fifth-grader's grandfather heard it all, but had to hit the ground before rescuing his granddaughter.

"There must have been 20 shots fired within 30 to 40 seconds. They were shooting like it was the Wild, Wild West," said Al Davis. "I hit the ground, and then jumped up to check on the kid. Saw her bleeding and called 911."

Seconds later, a neighbor pulled up and saw Qualyah's mother holding the little girl and sobbing. She scooped up the injured little girl and drove her to the hospital along with her frantic mother.

"All I know is she said: 'The baby was shot, Tasha don't let my baby die. Take me to the hospital,'" Natasha Bell recounted. "She had the baby in her arms, blood everywhere."

Bell rushed the child to University Hospital where doctors performed surgery Sunday night.

Family members said at least one bullet passed through the little girl's liver, but her wound was not considered life-threatening.

As police hunt for the gunman, a man who shares the two-family house with Qualyah and her mother can't believe what happened. "Sad that a little child can't even sit outside just to play. Just a terrible world," he said.

The little girl's family is said to be by the bedside in the hospital after she underwent emergency surgery to remove the bullet from her abdomen.

"The mother is hanging in there, everybody is just nervous and hoping for the best," Bell said.

Police don't know what sparked the shooting or who the gunman's target was but they described the girl as an innocent bystander caught in the crossfire.

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