A 5-year-old girl left critically injured when she was hit by gunfire while in the family car near a vigil for a Bronx shooting victim has improved, her parents told The Post.
Police at the scene where a girl was shot while sitting inside her parents parked car in the Bronx.when she was hit by gunfire while in the family car near a vigil for a Bronx shooting victim has improved, her parents told The Post.
“She’s better,” the girl’s father said outside Montefiore Children’s Hospital, after grabbing a bundle of balloons for the child, including one that read “Get Well Soon.”Neither of the parents wanted to be identified by name and declined to talk in detail about what happened.The bullets flew as friends and family of a man shot and killed Thursday near East 214th Street and Holland Avenue were about to release their own balloons in his memory at the same spot a day later.
The vigil was being held for Justin Rodriguez, who was killed when he was shot in the chest and shoulder about a block away at East 213th Street and Holland Avenue on Thursday, police said.“I have no idea what this was all about,” Rodriguez’s girlfriend said, sitting in front of the candles set up for him.“I don’t know who was in the car. All I saw was a duct-taped window. It happened so fast.” “She keeps on saying, ‘Papi, Papi, Dada, Dada.
A 60-year-old DJ who was at the vigil but had just left when the bullets flew said it’s “a shame we got to go through this in the neighborhood.”“It’s getting from bad to worse out here.” “The neighborhood was better but now it’s like you got the gangs, you got the drugs, you got the people shooting around,” he said.Another neighbor said he was inside his apartment when he heard five or six shots and immediately thought of his daughters, who were at a nearby store.
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