Bullets Fired Into Ferguson Home Kill 9-Year-Old Girl

“I never in a million years thought that I’d be laying my daughter to rest”, said James Bolden, the 9-year-old’s father.

Police believe the person who fired the bullets must have done so from a close range.

Jamyla’s grandmother was the first to reach the little girl following the attack, at 9.30pm Tuesday night. At the time of the shooting, there were other people in the home, According to the grandmother her husband and Jamyla’s brother were also in the home when someone opened fire. “I was telling her to just breathe”.

No arrests have been made in Tuesday night’s fatal shooting of Jamyla Bolden and police don’t yet know if the home was targeted or the shots were random, Ferguson Sgt.

Two officers tried to keep Jamyla alive for emergency services, but she died shortly after from the bullet wound.

Jamyla was a fourth-grader at Koch Elementary.

There is continuing violence and unrest on the streets of Ferguson, Missouri, one year after the death of Michael Brown. Do it for her. Do it for a nine-year-old child that didn’t even get to see the rest of the world, ‘ he told local news channel KMOV. Riverview Garden schools spokeswoman Melanie Powell-Robinson says the 9-year-old was excited to share her summer readings with her classmates.

“There needs to be a reevaluation of human life: [whether] black, white, young, seasoned, whether in Ferguson, or areas considered affluent”, Pastor Willis Johnson said to KMOV. “This epidemic of lost life under false pretense and of no real significant reason has to change”. “I showed emotion and I cried and said a prayer for her, and my heart is still broken”.