A man is wanted in North Carolina who shot a six-year-old girl and her parents Tuesday night. He would have gotten carried away after a basketball invaded his yard.
“Why did you shoot my father and I?” Kinsley, 6, asked the 24-year-old man who injured her and her parents, local North Carolina television station WSOC-TV reported. On Tuesday, while kids were playing basketball in Gaston County, a ball rolled in Robert Singletary’s backyard. An everyday and banal event, which nevertheless caused the young man’s black anger and made him leave his house with a gun.
He then repeatedly shot Kinsley and his parents. Hit in the back, the family man is still in serious condition. For her part, the little girl had to have stitches at the level of the cheek, while her mother was only grazed by a bullet.
Another man was reportedly attacked in the shooting but was not hit, local media reported. US police are still looking for Robert Singletary, who was accused in December of hitting his 21-year-old girlfriend with a hammer.
Investigations were opened into attempted first-degree murder, two attacks with a deadly weapon with intent to kill resulting in serious injuries and possession of a firearm by a criminal.
A confusing series
This news comes as part of a tragic series of similar events in the United States, where guns are devastating: A black teenager was seriously injured by gunshot last week after knocking on the wrong door of a Missouri home. The suspect pleaded not guilty, according to US media on Wednesday.
In upstate New York, a 20-year-old woman was killed Saturday after being shot after accidentally driving into the driveway of a private home.
A man opened fire on cheerleaders in Texas on Wednesday after one of them tried to open the door of their car, which they mistook for their own vehicle.