A 12-year-old girl was shot while protecting her siblings at their Houston, Texas, apartment on Oct. 5, police officers said.
The men became upset and fired at least four shots into the apartment, one of which struck the girl in the stomach, leaving her critically wounded.
She was rushed to Texas Children’s Hospital for an emergency surgery.
Assistant police Chief Bobby Dobbins praised the girl for helping her siblings in the face of danger. “She did what was right,” Dobbins said at a press conference.
The shooting took place at 8426 Hammerly Rd., police said.
The girl’s mother was not at home when the shooting happened, having gone to the grocery store, and the roommate was at a laundromat at the apartment complex at the time, reported ABC 13.
One neighbor said that at least four gunshots could clearly be heard.
“My husband was driving by and he heard multiple gunshots on his way to Walmart,” Bobby Binns told the Chronicle.
