
Police don't think the girl was targeted in the drive-by shooting. She was treated and released at a local hospital.
A 9-year-old girl who was selling Girl Scout cookies has been shot in Indianapolis.
Authorities say Sinai Miller was with her two younger sisters not far from their home when a car drove by and blasted shots in their direction. She was struck in the leg and taken to the hospital in stable condition, returning home later, according to a USA Today report.
Her family said that SinaiĀ had asked them, “What did I do wrong?” Mark Chandler, who is her mother’s boyfriend, said she had just recently left the house and “didn’t even get to make it across the lot and then the shots start ringing out,” according to the report.
Police headed to an apartment complex at around 4:30 p.m. Tuesday on reports of the shooting, and witnesses at the scene said they saw someone sticking their arm out the window of an SUV and shooting a weapon randomly. There were children playing outside at the time.
The SUV immediately drove off after the shooting, according to police.
Police say they do not think the shooter was targeting the girl. They are currently trying to track down a blue Ford Expedition.
The shooting happened at the Retreat Cooperative apartments, which is located in north Indianapolis.
The CEO of the Girl Scouts of Central Indiana, Deborah Hearn Smith, weighed in on the shooting, saying that girls need to feel safe in their own neighborhoods in order to be built up to be “girls of courage, confidence, and character,” which is the mission of the Girl Scouts.
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