8-year-old fatally shot after car crash
By Reuters
27 February 2017 |
2:29 pm
A mother is pleading for the person who shot her 8-year-old daughter after a car crash in Houston to surrender to police. "I just want her, the person who did this, to be brought to justice," she said.
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