Police searching for suspects in shooting of 12-year-old girl

Fox - 5 NY
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And now a 12-year-old girl is recovering from two gunshot wounds,
and NYPD detectives are trying to hunt down two trigger pullers
who opened fire in what's called
the Pearly Gates Park here in the Bronx
Monday night without caring who they hit.
Residents are speaking out, hoping that NYPD detectives
take these dangerous suspects off the streets.
Let me show you what actually happened here
from this new video that we obtained.
In this video, you see four muzzle flashes from gunfire
highlighted by a white circle at the edge of the park.
A moment later, you see two figures
in black enter the frame and the picture.
One crouches down and places what witnesses tell us
was a gun underneath the car.
Video from the scene later shows what appears
to be that gun under the car parked on the street
just outside the Pearly Gates Park entrance.
Within minutes after the shooting,
residents tell us police arrived on the scene.
Crime scene tape marked off the area on Trapman Street
in the Westchester Square neighborhood,
which is in the eastern part of the Bronx.
Crime scene detectives collected shell casings
and whatever they could find that might identify the shooters
and their motive. The NYPD says about
8 30 Monday night a 12 year old girl was struck
by two bullets one hitting her in her torso and
the other in her right leg.
Sources say at this point in the investigation they believe she walked
into what was an ongoing gang beef and was struck by bullets
who were meant for someone else. Here's
what residents are telling us it's horrible i actually heard it
when i was going down to my
yard i heard it and i was like those are not fireworks
so i went inside and then like two
minutes later i heard the cops and everything
and we just it's common around here this there
actually saw it from the window she did yeah
and what did she tell you um she just said that it
looked like two young individuals one shorter than
the other um they point she heard six gunshots
When she looked out the window, she just managed to see them throwing
the gun underneath the car and running in the opposite direction.
Now we're told that the girl is in serious but stable condition,
and there's a bit of a Good Samaritan story here.
It was a woman driving by who saw what had happened who actually drove
the girl to the hospital before an ambulance could even get here.
She's there and expected to make a full recovery.
Detectives are confident that they'll have everything they need
to get these dangerous suspects off the streets.
That's the latest here from the Bronx.
