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Girl, 6, wounded during drive-by shooting in north Tulsa

TULSA, Okla. — A six-year-old girl is in critical condition after she was wounded during a drive-by shooting Sunday, Tulsa Police said.

Tulsa Police responded to a shooting near Apache and North Yale around 11 a.m.

Police said the six-year-old and her family were in a home when several shots were fired from a suspect outside in a car.

The girl was hit in the chest and taken to a hospital in critical condition. No other injuries were reported.

Police said the girl was not the intended victim.

“Why this is a tragedy is because the victim in this was an unintended victim that lived inside the residence here,” said Captain Shane Tuell with the Tulsa Police Department.

Captain Tuell said police are searching for the shooter.

“‘We can only surmise that there was an actual victim in mind with these individuals because I would like to think people are not travelling the streets of Tulsa just indiscriminately shooting into houses and we’ve not had that incident, thankfully, but our investigation will hopefully show exactly what was supposed to have happened here today and be able to track it back to the shooter,” he also said.

Captain Tuell also said what the suspect did was “absolutely unacceptable” and hopes that they will answer for the shooting in court.

Police have not released a suspect description or a description of the car.

Anyone with information is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 918-596-COPS.



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