Docs in Houston positioned a 9-year-old woman in a medically induced coma after she was shot within the head throughout an obvious highway rage incident, the woman's grandmother advised CNN on Thursday.
Ashanti Grant is combating for her life on the hospital, her household stated. Surgeons eliminated one bullet from her head, grandmother Elaine Williams stated. Ashanti's situation, Williams stated, is taken into account "critical."
"I really feel offended that this occurred [and] unhappy," Williams stated. "However I am hopeful and I've religion."
The incident befell Tuesday evening shortly after 9 p.m. when Ashanti, her mom, father and 11-year-old brother had been on their technique to the grocery retailer, Williams stated.
A GMC Denali pickup truck reduce off the household's automobile a number of occasions on the northbound lanes of the Southwest Freeway in southwest Houston, in keeping with a Houston police information launch.
"The suspect driver acquired behind the household's automobile and somebody contained in the Denali fired photographs towards the automobile, hanging the sufferer," the discharge stated.
Ashanti was the one one injured, Williams stated.
HPD solely had obscure descriptions of the suspects, a Hispanic man who was the motive force with brief hair and a presumably Hispanic girl who was the passenger.
There's a US$30,000 reward for info resulting in the arrest of the suspects.
The household has arrange a GoFundme web page, with a US$100,000 objective, to assist cowl medical bills. As of Thursday night, greater than US$7,700 had been donated.
Ashanti was considered one of three youngsters shot within the Houston space inside the final week. An 11-year-old boy was fatally shot February 3 outdoors a Harris County residence advanced, in keeping with the Harris County Sheriff's Workplace. Then simply hours earlier than Ashanti's capturing, a 13-year-old boy was shot a number of occasions and is in secure situation, Houston police stated in a information launch.
Final week, Houston officers introduced a plan to struggle crime, which incorporates methods for violence discount and crime prevention by way of boosting police presence, key neighborhood partnerships and youth outreach alternatives.
"Because the starting of the yr, our metropolis has felt something however secure," Mayor Sylvester Turner stated. Homicides in Houston elevated by 18.27 per cent in 2021, in comparison with 2020, in keeping with knowledge launched by police final week.
"Sadly, the rise in homicides in the course of the first month of 2022, together with assaults on law enforcement officials and residents is a sobering reminder that we should collectively try for excellence as a neighborhood to fight our rising crime challenges," Turner stated.
Ashanti Grant, pictured right here, is combating for her life on the hospital after a highway rage incident. (Courtesy Elaine Williams)
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