The Kingsessing shooter fired at her and her children at least 14 times. They survived. The family is now back in their South Philadelphia home. But in the 10 days since the shooting, they’ve gotten little sleep. EllieRushing shares their story.
Octavia Brown cruised down 56th Street, the windows of her Jeep Cherokee slightly cracked.
Three shots struck By-Kir in the left leg. Bullet fragments and glass sliced his brother, Jy-Fir, and their mother.Their young cousin in the passenger’s seat dropped to the floor of the car and wedged herself under the dashboard so tightly that her aunt later had to struggle to pull her out. So Robinson jumped behind the wheel of the Jeep, and Brown crawled in the back with her babies, and they sped off.
Once at the hospital, Brown stepped out of the car, and fainted at the sight of the bullet holes. When she came to, she was on a stretcher, surrounded by doctors cutting off her clothes and searching for potential bullet wounds. “My son was just staring at me. His face, he was so lost,” Brown said. “I remember he was sitting on me, and just kept touching my face.”
Brown, who worked as a home health aide, is out of work for the foreseeable future. Her car, which she relied on to get to work, was totaled. Because she only had liability insurance, she’ll get no money to replace it. Even before all of this, she lived paycheck to paycheck, she said. Her landlord has been understanding, but she doesn’t know how she’ll afford upcoming bills.
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