The mother of the 5-year-old girl who was killed in a drive-by shooting in Houston over the July 4 weekend has identified her daughter – with police revealing the child was not the intended target .
Kristena Watters, a mother of two from Houston, said gunshots that erupted fatally struck her daughter, Khamaya Dior Donelson, and injured her 8-year-old son on Sunday.
“My son saw his little sister, his best friend for lifeeeee (sic) who was hit by a stray bullet die on his knees while we were going to the hospital! Watters wrote in an emotional Facebook update early Wednesday. “I knew my baby was gone and I always prayed to God to let my baby wake up. »
Houston police previously said Watters was waiting at a red light in the 13500 block of Northborough Drive in the high-crime neighborhood of Greenspoint around 1 a.m. Sunday when a silver four-door sedan approached him. intersection.
A suspect, described only as a black male, leaned out of the driver’s side window brandishing a gun and began shooting towards a nearby grocery store, police said.
Cops said Khamaya and his older brother, who were sitting in the back of their mother’s car, “got caught in the crossfire.”
Watters drove her bullet-riddled children to the hospital, where her daughter was pronounced dead. Her son was treated for a gunshot wound to the arm.
“She was such a precious child, full of love and laughter,” the grieving mother wrote of Khamaya in a GoFundMe campaign description.
Police said they have yet to determine the motive for the shooting and are asking the public for help identifying the shooter.
Khamaya’s grandmother, Dawn Henderson, wrote in a Facebook post that she hoped whoever killed the little girl “dies a slow and painful death”.
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