Police are looking for a gunman after a 6-year-old girl and her parents were shot Tuesday night in Gaston County. Channel 9′s Ken Lemon learned it all happened over a basketball that rolled into the suspect’s yard. The shooting happened in the area of April Drive and Grier Street, which is in a neighborhood south of Gastonia.
Neighbors said several young children were playing basketball when the ball rolled down the street and into Robert Singletary’s yard. They said Singletary got mad and ran down the street, firing a gun at a neighbor.
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They said Singletary then came back, shooting at William White as White ran with his 6-year-old daughter, Kinsley. Kinsley and her father were seriously hurt. Her mother, Ashley Hilderbrand, was grazed by a bullet and is back home now, but William White is still in the hospital. “We don’t even know the man,” Kinsley said. Police are now looking for Singletary, 24, who is believed to be armed.
A Channel 9 crew saw several entrances to the neighborhood blocked off as police investigated Tuesday night. The neighborhood remained sealed off Wednesday morning.
“Why did you shoot my daddy and me? Why did you shoot a kid’s dad?” Kinsley asked. Neighbors said Singletary was new to the area and often got angry with children in the neighborhood.
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William White became worried about his 6-year-old daughter just before Tuesday’s shooting and ran down to protect her. Police said another man was shot at during the incident but was not hurt.The biggest question that still remains is why.
Kinsley, who has stitches from bullet fragments in her cheek, is in a position no child should be in. She’s worried about her father, who suffered the most serious injuries while he was trying to protect her. She spoke to Lemon while holding her grandfather’s hand, with sadness in her eyes and the daunting question on her mind.
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