Georgia mother says 13-month-old child was shot in act of road rage
Police say they don't have a suspect description but are working on leads in the case after a Georgia toddler was shot.
Police say they don't have a suspect description but are working on leads in the case after a Georgia toddler was shot.
Police say they don't have a suspect description but are working on leads in the case after a Georgia toddler was shot.
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A 13-month-old Georgia girl is recovering after police say a man, in a fit of rage over a fender-bender, fired at a car and shot her last week.
Raylah was in her car seat Oct. 6 when her mother's friend got in a minor accident while the toddler was in the back seat. The man whose car she hit started shooting, injuring Raylah, police said.
Police said they're still looking for the shooter.
Her mother Nakita, who asked their last names not to be given, says her friend was driving that afternoon. When they got in the area of Fletcher and Ira streets, her friend accidentally hit an SUV.
Nakita said a man in a nearby house came running outside with a gun and demanded money.
"He's, like, 'That's going to be $300.'" My friend is, like, 'I'm not going to be able to give you $300. Can we exchange insurance information?'"
Things escalated from there.
"He was getting irate, and I asked him before everything was over, I was like, 'Don't shoot.' Because I saw him clutching for his gun in his satchel," the mother said. "I said, 'Don't shoot, my baby's in the car."
Her pleas didn't work: Police said the man started firing.
"All I could hear was gunshots coming from everywhere," Natika said.
She quickly realized her baby had been shot.
"My baby's full of blood, so I don't know if she's hit in the chest, but she's still not crying, so I didn't know if she was alive," Natika said.
Raylah had been shot in the hand. Her finger was broken. The mother and her friend headed for the hospital, but didn't make it.
"She feels the tires going out, because at this point the tires are shot out," the mother said. "It took us right off Fulton Street and it completely stopped as we were getting out. It actually caught fire."
The mother said they flagged down another driver and finally made it to a hospital.
Raylah is going to fully recover from her injuries.
The mother said the man who shot her daughter doesn't deserve to be out on the streets.
"I hope and pray he can at least turn himself in, or the police can do their job, stay on top of it and find him, because he clearly is a ticking time bomb."
Police have not released a description of the suspect but said they do have leads.