Search Continues For Suspect in 7-Year-Old Houston Girl's Shooting

Style Magazine Newswire | 1/4/2019, 2:13 p.m.
Police and family members have asked for the public's help as a search continues for a man suspected of shooting …
Jazmine Barnes

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Police and family members have asked for the public's help as a search continues for a man suspected of shooting a 7-year-old girl to death in Houston. Jazmine Barnes was riding with her mother and three siblings early Sunday morning east of the city when they were fired upon. According to police, a bearded white man in his 40s wearing a red hoodie pulled alongside their car in a reddish pickup truck and started shooting. Jazmine Barnes died at the scene; her mother, LaPorsha Washington was shot in the arm and Jazmine's 6-year-old sister was injured by shattered glass. Police haven't yet pointed to a possible motive for the killing of the African-American child. Gonzalez has said authorities aren't ruling out any possibilities, including that it could be a hate crime. A local chapter of Black Lives Matter and others have suggested that the killing was racially motivated.

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