A six-year-old girl shot after a basketball rolled into North Carolina man's yard
A manhunt is underway near Charlotte, North Carolina, for a man who reportedly shot and seriously wounded his 6-year-old neighbor and her dad when a basketball rolled into his yard.
Robert Louis Singletary, 24, should be considered armed and dangerous, Gaston County Police said. He’s 6-foot-2 and about 223 pounds, with brown eyes and black hair.
The shooting began after kids had been “playing basketball, and a ball had rolled down that way and had rolled into the yard and they went to go get it.
“We never expected anybody would break a gun out amongst all those kids,” he said. “I mean that was insane.”
The incident was another case this week alone in which young people were shot after seemingly ending up in the wrong place at the wrong time, including two teen cheerleaders mistakenly approaching someone else’s vehicle in a Texas grocery store parking lot, a 16-year-old who rang the wrong doorbell in Kansas City and a 20-year-old who turned into the wrong New York driveway.
The shootings reflect the consequences of a country with more civilian guns than people, according to the Small Arms Survey, and the toxic stew of fear, paranoia and distrust that influences so many and leads to violence.
In the Gaston County shooting, the father – identified by family as William White – was seriously injured and remains hospitalized, police Chief Stephen Zill said Wednesday evening in a statement.
The girl and a second adult who was grazed by a bullet have been treated and released, police said. Another man also was shot at but not hurt, police said in a news release.
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