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Man shoots girl, six, and her parents after ball rolls into his backyard Man allegedly shoots girl, six, and her parents after ball rolls into his backyard
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William White and his daughter Kinsley were seriously hurt during shooting in North Carolina while suspect remains at large William White and his daughter Kinsley were seriously hurt during shooting in North Carolina
A six-year-old girl and her parents were allegedly shot by a neighbor after a basketball that the child was playing with rolled into the attacker’s yard, according to authorities and local media reporting.A six-year-old girl and her parents were allegedly shot by a neighbor after a basketball that the child was playing with rolled into the attacker’s yard, according to authorities and local media reporting.
The shooting occurred on Wednesday in North Carolina when several young children were playing with a basketball which rolled into the yard of Robert Singletary, who neighbors say was new to the area and often mad at the local children, the news outlet WSOC-TV reported. It continued a recent spate of shootings across the US involving a property owner who fired at young people who approached them either by mistake or for an innocent reason. The shooting occurred on Wednesday in North Carolina when several young children were playing with a basketball which rolled into the yard of Robert Singletary, the news outlet WSOC-TV reported. Online court records show Singletary was arrested Thursday afternoon near Tampa. He is scheduled to appear in court on Friday.
Witnesses told the station that Singletary ran out of his home upset after the ball rolled on to his yard and started firing a gun at a neighbor. William White and his six-year-old daughter Kinsley were seriously hurt during the shooting. White had his own gun and tried to shoot back at Singletary, who witnesses say unloaded an entire magazine at White and his daughter. It continued a recent spate of shootings across the US that are alleged to involve property owners who fired at young people who approached them either by mistake or for an innocent reason.
“He looked at my husband and my daughter and told them, ‘I’m going to kill you,’” Kinsley’s mother, Ashley Hilderbrand, reportedly said. Witnesses told the station that Singletary ran out of his home upset after the ball rolled on to his yard and started firing a gun at a neighbor. William White and his six-year-old daughter Kinsley were reported to be seriously hurt during the shooting.
Kinsley had to have stitches due to bullet fragments in her cheek, and she told reporters that she was worried about her father. According to reports Kinsley had to have stitches due to bullet fragments in her cheek, and White was seriously injured after being shot in the back. Hilderbrand was grazed by a bullet and was back home on Wednesday after being discharged from a hospital.
“Why did you shoot my daddy and me? Why did you shoot a kid’s dad?” Kinsley told WSOC. Kinsley and her parents’ shootings came six days after Ralph Yarl, a Black teenager, was shot in a separate and unrelated incident by a white man after ringing the man’s doorbell in Kansas City, Missouri.
White was seriously injured after being shot in the back. Hilderbrand was grazed by a bullet and was back home on Wednesday after being discharged from a hospital. Yarl, 16, was allegedly shot twice on 13 April by Andrew Lester, 84, after Yarl mistakenly rang Lester’s doorbell believing it was where his two younger brothers were visiting a friend, according to reports.
Singletary remained at large as of Thursday morning. Police warned local residents that he is armed and dangerous. On 18 April, in another separate and unrelated incident Kaylin Gillis, 20, was allegedly shot and killed by an upstate New York resident after the car she was riding in accidentally pulled into the wrong driveway.
Wednesday was not the first time Singletary was accused of acting violently. He was separately charged in December with assaulting his girlfriend with a miniature sledgehammer and keeping her in their apartment for two hours as she was bleeding, ABC News reported. According to reports they were on their way to a party that was actually at a different address. Realizing they were at the wrong address, the group started to back out of the driveway when the resident is alleged to have fired two shots from his porch, striking Gillis in the neck.
Kinsley and her parents’ shootings came six days after Ralph Yarl, a Black teenager, was shot by a white man after ringing the man’s doorbell in Kansas City, Missouri.
Yarl, 16, was shot twice on 13 April by Andrew Lester, 84, after Yarl mistakenly rang Lester’s doorbell believing it was where his two younger brothers were visiting a friend.
On 18 April, Kaylin Gillis, 20, was shot and killed by an upstate New York resident after the car she was riding in accidentally pulled into the wrong driveway.
Gillis and three friends were traveling in the rural town of Hebron on Saturday night when the group mistakenly pulled into the driveway of homeowner Kevin Monahan, 65.
They were on their way to a party that was actually at a different address. Realizing they were at the wrong address, the group started to back out of the driveway when Monahan fired two shots from his porch, striking Gillis in the neck.
“I wanted to spend the rest of my life with her,” Blake Walsh, 19, said of Gillis, his girlfriend, in an NBC interview. “My world was taken from me.”“I wanted to spend the rest of my life with her,” Blake Walsh, 19, said of Gillis, his girlfriend, in an NBC interview. “My world was taken from me.”
Walsh was driving the car when Monahan shot at the vehicle. The group was forced to drive nearly five miles before calling for help due to poor cell reception in the area. Walsh was driving the car when the resident is alleged to have shot at the vehicle.
Emergency responders pronounced Gillis dead. Monahan was taken into custody and jailed. He faces a maximum of life in prison on a second-degree murder charge. Emergency responders pronounced Gillis dead. The alleged shooter was arrested and was taken into custody.
Three days after Gillis was killed, a man in Texas shot and injured two cheerleaders, Payton Washington and Heather Roth, after one almost got into his parked car by mistake. Investigators later booked Pedro Tello Rodriguez Jr, 25, on a count of deadly conduct. Days after Gillis was killed, a man in Texas is alleged to have shot and injured two cheerleaders, Payton Washington and Heather Roth, after one almost got into his parked car by mistake, according to reports. Investigators later charged a 25-year-old man on a count of deadly conduct.
The various cases since Yarl’s shooting have trained a global spotlight on US gun culture.The various cases since Yarl’s shooting have trained a global spotlight on US gun culture.