George Floyd’s 4-year-old grandniece, Arianna Delane, was shot and injured after several shots were fired into an apartment in Houston on New Year’s Day, Derrick Delane, the girl’s father, vertel CNN affiliate KTRK.
“She is recovering,” Delane told CNN correspondent Rosa Flores on Wednesday. Delane told Flores the details reported by KTRK were accurate, but that he did not have time to do an interview at that time.
Family told KTRK the 4-year-old victim was struck in the torso while she was asleep in her bed and she suffered a punctured lung and liver and three broken ribs. Delane showed KTRK the bullet holes on the walls and windows.
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“My daughter jumped up and said, ‘Daddy, I’ve been hit,’ and I was shocked until I seen the blood and I realized my 4-year-old daughter was really hit,” Delane told KTRK. “She didn’t know what was going on. She was asleep.”
Arianna was taken to a hospital in a private vehicle where she underwent surgery, the Houston Police Department (HPD) said in a news release Tuesday. She is currently in stable condition in the intensive care unit.
“I’m really hurting at the moment,” Filoniseer Floyd, George Floyd’s brother, aan CNN gesê.
Houston Police Chief Troy Finner called the shooting “senseless” and launched an internal investigation into HPD’s response time to the shooting, according to a statement posted to HPD’s Twitter account.
Police arrived roughly four hours after the incident, which occurred around 3 vm., Delane told KTRK.
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“I am aware and have concerns regarding the delayed response time in this incident and have initiated an Internal Affairs investigation. I ask the city continue to pray for the child’s full recovery and assist in providing information that would lead to the arrest of the suspect or suspects responsible,” Finner said in the statement.
There were four adults and two children inside the apartment at the time of the shooting, according to the HPD. There is no suspect description and the motive in the shooting is unknown at this time. The incident is under investigation by the HPD.
CNN has reached out to the Floyd family’s attorney, Ben Crump, vir kommentaar.
Floyd died in Mei 2020 in Minneapolis after then-police officer Derek Chauvin knelt on his neck for more than nine minutes. Chauvin was found guilty of murder last spring and was sentenced to 22 and a half years in prison in Junie.
His death sparked protests in the United States and around the world that called for changes in policing and law enforcement’s relationship with Black and brown communities.
