An 8-year-old girl was transported to the hospital late Tuesday night after being shot and injured on Birmingham’s west side after her family tried to help at an accident.
An 8-year-old girl is shot in the city of Birmingham trying to help a crashed vehicle
Police initially said the girl’s injuries were life-threatening, but later said she should be fine.
She was shot in the arm and suffered injuries to parts of her head from the machine gun. The shooting occurred shortly after 9:30.
1412 Warrior Road.
The girl was in the vehicle with her family, when they encountered a crashed vehicle, the car was partially on the curb with the airbags deployed.
The mother, according to police, is a nurse, so she told her husband to stop to see if anyone was injured.
When the mother got out of the vehicle, police believe that rifle fire came from another vehicle that remained hovering nearby and the girl was hit.
The second vehicle, which has not yet been identified, apparently fired at the red vehicle and turned around and opened fire again, but this time the good Samaritan’s vehicle struck the daughter
Police said they found no one in the wrecked red vehicle when they arrived.
It had bullet holes in it, but they did not know if these holes were created before the drive, from which the girl was injured, or during the rifle shot, which wounded the girl.
Mauldin said two people had shown up with gunshot wounds at Baptist Medical Center Princeton and detectives are trying to identify if the two shootings match.
