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Yesterday, while playing a 7 year old girl was shot in the head. What the fuck is this world coming to man? This happened less than six blocks from where I live. I heard about this on the radio today on my way home from work and I had to pul over for a minute because the shit is just heartbreaking..
Girl, 7, dies after being shot in head
Gunfire shatters neighborhood filled with children
By MEG JONES and ADAM BERGSTROM
mjones@journalsentinel.com
Posted: April 18, 2005
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Nikeemah Hubanks
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A 7-year-old girl who was shot in the head Sunday while playing outside her home on the city's north side died of her injuries overnight.
Police on Monday identified the girl as Nikeemah Hubanks, a second-grader at Palmer Elementary School.
Nikeemah's family said she was standing outside as a 22-year-old man, who Nikeemah's family said was a neighbor, ran past her, carrying his 5-year-old child in his arms.
Police Capt. Eric Moore said Nikeemah was hit when two to three people started shooting at the man about 4:50 p.m. On Monday, police said Nikeemah was about 300 feet away from the shooting when she was hit.
The man was struck in the buttocks and taken to Froedtert Memorial Lutheran Hospital in Wauwatosa. His injury was considered minor, police said. The 5-year-old was not injured.
After the girl was gunned down - on a nice spring afternoon when lots of kids were playing outside in the 2600 block of N. 5th St. - relatives said it wasn't the first time she faced a life-threatening situation.
When she was only 2 months old, Nikeemah was injured in a house fire at N. 34th and W. Center streets, a blaze that also injured her older brothers Marquise, 10, Trevon, 12, as well as two cousins and her father, Zola Hubanks.
And an adult neighbor, who said she was Nikeemah's cousin, told of how Nikeemah was nearly injured last year when shots were fired through her bedroom while she slept.
That a girl playing outside could be shot down was something her family was having trouble comprehending.
"She's real sweet," said Zola Hubanks. "Real kind. Soft hearted. Ain't got a bad bone in her body. I don't understand it."
A cousin, 19-year-old Andre Washington, said Nikeemah, whose favorite color is purple, loves to dance, sing and listen to rap music as well as watch Bratz cartoons.
"We're just praying and hoping whoever done this gets brought to justice," he said Sunday.
In an interview Sunday evening at Children's Hospital of Wisconsin in Wauwatosa, Zola Hubanks said that his daughter's prognosis was grave because she was suffering from swelling of the brain and was breathing on a ventilator.
Nicole Davis, a family friend, was inside the girl's house when the shooting occurred. She ran outside to see Nikeemah lying on the ground, one side of her head covered in blood.
"She was just breathing heavily, like she was sleeping. Her mother was hysterical," said Davis, who tried to calm down the girl's mother, Niheema Washington.
Police were unsure Sunday night about how well the 22-year-old man knew Nikeemah or her relatives, some of whom live on the block where the shots were fired. And, it was unclear why the man was running.
Police suspect that more than one weapon was fired, although police Lt. William Jessup said it did not appear the 22-year-old shot back at the suspects, and that he likely was unarmed.
As Nikeemah's family and friends waited for word at Children's Hospital, they shook their heads and wondered how the little girl ended up in the middle of a gunfight.
About the shooters, her father said: "They need to get taught a lesson. The weather is nice, and the kids are just out playing. I don't understand why someone would shoot wildly on a block full of kids. That doesn't make sense."
Girl, 7, dies after being shot in head
Gunfire shatters neighborhood filled with children
By MEG JONES and ADAM BERGSTROM
mjones@journalsentinel.com
Posted: April 18, 2005
Shooting
Photo/Family
Nikeemah Hubanks
Related Coverage
Video: TMJ4 Report
A 7-year-old girl who was shot in the head Sunday while playing outside her home on the city's north side died of her injuries overnight.
Police on Monday identified the girl as Nikeemah Hubanks, a second-grader at Palmer Elementary School.
Nikeemah's family said she was standing outside as a 22-year-old man, who Nikeemah's family said was a neighbor, ran past her, carrying his 5-year-old child in his arms.
Police Capt. Eric Moore said Nikeemah was hit when two to three people started shooting at the man about 4:50 p.m. On Monday, police said Nikeemah was about 300 feet away from the shooting when she was hit.
The man was struck in the buttocks and taken to Froedtert Memorial Lutheran Hospital in Wauwatosa. His injury was considered minor, police said. The 5-year-old was not injured.
After the girl was gunned down - on a nice spring afternoon when lots of kids were playing outside in the 2600 block of N. 5th St. - relatives said it wasn't the first time she faced a life-threatening situation.
When she was only 2 months old, Nikeemah was injured in a house fire at N. 34th and W. Center streets, a blaze that also injured her older brothers Marquise, 10, Trevon, 12, as well as two cousins and her father, Zola Hubanks.
And an adult neighbor, who said she was Nikeemah's cousin, told of how Nikeemah was nearly injured last year when shots were fired through her bedroom while she slept.
That a girl playing outside could be shot down was something her family was having trouble comprehending.
"She's real sweet," said Zola Hubanks. "Real kind. Soft hearted. Ain't got a bad bone in her body. I don't understand it."
A cousin, 19-year-old Andre Washington, said Nikeemah, whose favorite color is purple, loves to dance, sing and listen to rap music as well as watch Bratz cartoons.
"We're just praying and hoping whoever done this gets brought to justice," he said Sunday.
In an interview Sunday evening at Children's Hospital of Wisconsin in Wauwatosa, Zola Hubanks said that his daughter's prognosis was grave because she was suffering from swelling of the brain and was breathing on a ventilator.
Nicole Davis, a family friend, was inside the girl's house when the shooting occurred. She ran outside to see Nikeemah lying on the ground, one side of her head covered in blood.
"She was just breathing heavily, like she was sleeping. Her mother was hysterical," said Davis, who tried to calm down the girl's mother, Niheema Washington.
Police were unsure Sunday night about how well the 22-year-old man knew Nikeemah or her relatives, some of whom live on the block where the shots were fired. And, it was unclear why the man was running.
Police suspect that more than one weapon was fired, although police Lt. William Jessup said it did not appear the 22-year-old shot back at the suspects, and that he likely was unarmed.
As Nikeemah's family and friends waited for word at Children's Hospital, they shook their heads and wondered how the little girl ended up in the middle of a gunfight.
About the shooters, her father said: "They need to get taught a lesson. The weather is nice, and the kids are just out playing. I don't understand why someone would shoot wildly on a block full of kids. That doesn't make sense."
