Stray Bullet Injures Child, Teenager Who Was Targeted Wounded

A family is devastated after a shooting on the night of October 1st, 2024, left a six-year-old girl severely wounded and her 19-year-old neighbor injured in Dennery. Police are investigating the incident, which occurred at approximately 8:30 PM. According to the mother of the injured 19-year-old, her son was sitting on the porch of their home when a gunman opened fire from behind the galvanized fence surrounding the property. In what she described as a “barrage of bullets,” the shooter breached the yard, aiming to finish what he started. “After the person shot him ( the 19-year-old) from behind the gate, the person came in the yard. When I start screaming, the person end up going, and my son come and tell me he got shot,” the mother told reporters. She disclosed that her son sustained three gunshot wounds, two to his right leg and one to his right arm. They later discovered that the six-year-old, a neighbour’s child who was asleep inside the house, had also sustained gunshot injuries. The mother of the teenage shooting victim was looking after the child and her brother in the absence of their parents. She stated that the six-year-old girl was sleeping on...