A girl injured in a shooting while driving in the western part of Halifax on Tuesday night was going to get ice cream with a friend.
Jessica Oakley tells CTV News that her boyfriend has decided to take his daughter and her 11-year-old friend to buy ice cream around 9 p.m.
Oakley says the girls were on the alley of their town house on Federal Avenue when a car stopped and a masked man fired a gun.
She says the man fired several shots in their direction.
I guess the car stopped and stopped and he saw the gun and then he shouted at the girls to “climb” and they got off and he went behind the door of his car and then I started looking down and all I caught was the car leaving over there, ”Oakley recalls.
Oakley, who was upstairs at the time, looked outside and saw the 11-year-old girl lying on the ground. She says the child was shot in the lower body.
She helped her in and called 911.
“I helped her, I put her in the house. I turned her over – she was shot in the ass – I turned her over and started putting pressure on her ass … on the 911 phone and waiting for them to show up. “
Oakley says the child was taken to hospital and is recovering from surgery.
“As far as I know, I’m doing well now,” she said.
Oakley does not know why they were targeted, but he believes it may have been a case of misidentification.
“We have no problems with anyone, we are quite calm. We have already grown up. We have families and we have children. “
HALIFAX POLICE INVESTIGATE
Halifax Regional Police received a call to 911 on Tuesday at 9:19 p.m.
When officers arrived on the scene, they found the injured girl at the home.
Police confirm that the girl was taken to hospital with life-threatening injuries.
Investigators do not believe the girl is targeted.
The home and a parked vehicle were also hit by bullets Tuesday night. There was no one in the vehicle at the time.
Part of Federal Avenue was still cordoned off on Wednesday morning, and investigators remained on the scene until noon.
Police say there is no information about the suspicions at the moment.
“At this time, we do not have a description of the suspect to pass out,” said the Halifax Regional Police. John McLeod. “Our investigators are working hard to speed up the investigation and gather all the information they can to determine exactly what happened last night.
Although no arrests were made, police said Tuesday night that “there is no immediate threat to the general public, nor ongoing security concerns that need to be known.”
This is the second shooting in Halifax this week and the seventh in the city this year.
Police say they could not link Tuesday’s shooting to other incidents, but are concerned about gun violence in the Halifax area.
“We are addressing the public. “We’ve had a number of incidents recently and we want to let them know that it’s important that any information, no matter how small, they give us,” McLeod said. “This may be the information we need to move these investigations forward.”
Anyone with information about the shooting or video from the area should contact Halifax Regional Police at 902-490-5020 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS (8477).
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