with with a gunshot.
We received the call of
the shooting in progress,
a shooting, a shooting called.
When the officers arrived,
HFD was already out here
transporting the 8 year old fem.
They transported to the hospitad
right now, as what we know right
now is the child did not surviv.
She's deceased.
Right now we don't have a lot
of information because of
the officers were coming in.
The girl was being transported
and loaded into the ambulance
and the grandfather as well was
also heading to the hospital.
We did get a consent.
We are waiting for our crime sce
investigators to go inside the apartment.
We did locate a weapon however
we did not disturb the scene so
we just see partial of what the
weapon on the bed but that's
all we have for now here.
The common theme is we had a
shooting yesterday with a four
year old in this area and.
They she survived.
Last Thursday, we also lost a
threeyearold with a gunshot wou.
It's still under investigation,
but we know we're in summertime.
We know the kids are at home.
We know the parents may have to work.
We know that sometimes we leave
our children by ourselves.
But here is the the plea to the parents,
to the caregivers.
Please lock up your weapons.
This is this. These are sensele.
These are preventable.
There are lock boxes.
I implore you to at least if you
have a gun and you don't have
access to lock up your safe,
always keep your guns unloaded.
Teach gun safety to your kids.
Tell them not to touch the weap.
This is happening too often.
We're losing our valuable,
beautiful children just on accidental
shootings and this can't be prevented.
Once again, you have council pe,
you have your some of your civic
associations that are giving out gun safes.
Please utilize those resources once again.
This eight-year old child has been shot.
She's investigation is still pending.
However, she may have shot hers.
We're still unclear, but if that's the case,
this is something that could hae
been avoided.
Please keep these weapons out
of reach of your children.
Hiding them is not sufficient.
If they're not locked or unload,
accidents happen.
We know they do and we're not.
I'm not blaming anybody,
but they can't be prevented.
And once again, this is summert.
Kids are at home.
We understand sometimes child
care is an issue.
But please lock up your guns,
keep your children safe,
and please teach them gun to
where it is not to be pointing.
And once again, if you do not he
access to a gun safe or gun loc,
always keep them unloaded.
Teach your children not to, not.
If they see a weapon,
not to touch it, to leave it al,
contact an adult and that's it.
But please, awareness teaching your children.
Also if you're going to have a weapon
in the home, No, no,
we don't know a lot.
You've got a question.
Do you believe that in this
case the child was home alone?
I know you mentioned
she was not alone,
she was with her grandparents.
The grandparent was leaving
as the ambulance was arriving
to follow the ambulance.
Is it her primary residence or
was she just? We still don't know yet.
Once again when we were arrivin,
the grandparents concerned with to follow
the ambulance to get with the grandchild
not going to blame anybody.
But we have counted four
children shot in eight days,
2 have been fatal.
At what point do we need to press charges?
At what point is blame a
part of the situation?
As HPD we do our part is doing e
investigation and that's up to e
District Attorney to accept the charges
after the investigation is completed.
Have you, have you given
them charges to accept?
It's still under investigation.
Like I said, last week's there
were so many people in the hous.
They're still investigating,
talking to witnesses last night,
same thing. And you know.
The the child will survive fromt
night however there was multiple
people so multiple witnesses.
This takes time and once again r
investigators do a very thorough
investigation and once it's completed
they presented to the District Attorney
and that's it's up to the Distrt
Attorney to see if there's theye
able to have charges filed or n.
We noticed there was a delay wih
the officers getting inside.
Is that just a matter of just
getting Commission or or getting
a hold of someone?
Well once again when the
grandfather left he locks the
door he secures the residence s.
There's no longer a victim.
We still we have to get consent
or get on a search warrant.
The grandfather gave us consent
and we got a key holder and tha.
And now what we're able to get .
Now we're just waiting for our
crime scene unit to get here.
I know you mentioned that you weren't able
to get really close to the gun because
you didn't want to disturb the scene,
but did you see if it was a han?
I'm going to, I'm going to takea
guess because I just saw the the
handle and it appears to look le
it's a revolver, but it's cover.
The front portion of it is cove.
But my guess it's going to be a revolver.
It's not, may not be accurate,
but once again it was under the cover,
partially hidden.
And what time the officers arrived at 12:40.
How many shots were fired? Do you know?
Just one. A single shot.
The single shot, it was an in ad
out the stomach, out of the the rear.
And was it, was it the
grandfather who called 911? Yes.
And was it only the grandfather who was
he? He appeared to be the only
person there at the time. Yes.
Sorry, our viewers are just now
joining us right now at 4:00 o'clock.
Can you just give us a quick
recap live for our viewers.
We had a shooting here that occurred.
We got a call here at 12:40 the grandfather.
As we were arriving at 12:40 the
officers noticed that HFD was he
already providing medical assistance.
They were transporting the
child to the to the hospital.
The 8 year old arrived and did not survive.
She has gunshot wound, 1 gunshot wound.
The grandfather went with her.
So they secured the residence ad
right now we're we're just just
going to continue to investigate
any other questions before we d.
I know you said there were seve,
but the correct number
within the past week before,
well I'm, I'm, I'm just saying
that the ones that I can recall,
three that we know of, three we
know of right now at the scene
since June 29th, Yes, yes, this is the 4th
one. This is the third one.
This is a third one as of from
last Thursday, last Thursday.
The child did not survive last night.
It was a shot on the foot and te
the officer that was on the scee
that's on this scene as well.
The child did survive today.
Unfortunately,
the 8 year old did not survive d
we'll provide the address after this.
And so it was, it was an 8
year old girl at home in an
apartment with her grandfather.
Yes, just the two of them
that we know of right now.
And you don't know who fired
we we're not sure yet.
Any other questions? OK.