The child’s grandmother says she is “doing better” after being hit by a stray bullet on Friday.
Make your contribution now and help Gothamist thrive in 2023.A 5-year-old girl is alert and talking after she was struck by a stray bullet near her home in the Bronx, according to her grandmother.
Zamayia was shot Friday around 7 p.m. when gunfire from another car went through her father’s gold Nissan on East 213th Street and White Plains Road, just steps away from a candlelit memorial for 26-year-old Justin Rodriguez, who was shot and killed around 12:30 a.m. on Thursday at the corner of East 213th Street and Holland Avenue, police said. Zamayia’s family was not attending the memorial at the time.
“They need to take all the guns off the street…. This is ridiculous. Too many children are getting hurt or killed, and adults with these guns. It’s just going crazy out here now,” Miles said.that the sound of a car backfiring may have sparked the shooting, though police did not confirm that theory. Zamayia’s panicked father tried to speed ahead to avoid the bullets, but only got as far as a nearby laundromat before jumping out with his bleeding daughter in his arms, the Daily News reported.
Luz Lopez, 18, was just finishing her first week of work at the deli on the corner of East 214th Street and Holland Avenue when she heard four or five shots, and later found out that Zamayia had been struck.
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