12-Year-Old Texas Girl Shot While Protecting Siblings

Zachary Stieber
By Zachary Stieber
October 6, 2018US News
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A 12-year-old girl was shot while protecting her siblings at their Houston, Texas, apartment on Oct. 5, police officers said.

Two men knocked on the door and demanded to see the roommate of the girl’s mother; the girl refused to open the door and herded at least four of her siblings into a back room, reported the Houston Chronicle.

The men became upset and fired at least four shots into the apartment, one of which struck the girl in the stomach, leaving her critically wounded.

She was rushed to Texas Children’s Hospital for an emergency surgery.

Assistant police Chief Bobby Dobbins praised the girl for helping her siblings in the face of danger. “She did what was right,” Dobbins said at a press conference.

The shooting took place at 8426 Hammerly Rd., police said.

The shooting happened around 8:30 p.m., police officers told KPRC. The men fled the scene in a red sedan. Police officers are still searching for them.

The girl’s mother was not at home when the shooting happened, having gone to the grocery store, and the roommate was at a laundromat at the apartment complex at the time, reported ABC 13.

One neighbor said that at least four gunshots could clearly be heard.

“My husband was driving by and he heard multiple gunshots on his way to Walmart,” Bobby Binns told the Chronicle.

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